About the Authors

Ching-Hsuan Lin

Current address: Department of Biochemical Science and Technology, College of Life Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Shail Kabrawala

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Emily P. Fox

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Tetrad Program, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Clarissa J. Nobile

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Alexander D. Johnson

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Richard J. Bennett

Richard_Bennett@brown.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CHL CJN RJB. Performed the experiments: CHL SK EPF CJN. Analyzed the data: CHL SK EPF CJN ADJ RJB. Wrote the paper: CHL EPF CJN ADJ RJB.