About the Authors

T. Tristan Brandhorst

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

René Roy

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, The Medical Scientist Training Program, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, The Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Training Program, College of Agriculture and Life Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Marcel Wüthrich

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Som Nanjappa

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Hanna Filutowicz

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Kevin Galles

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Marco Tonelli

Affiliation The Department of Biochemistry, The Biophysics Instrumentation Facility, College of Agriculture and Life Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Darrell R. McCaslin

Affiliation The Department of Biochemistry, The Biophysics Instrumentation Facility, College of Agriculture and Life Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Kenneth Satyshur

Affiliation The Department of Bacteriology, The College of Agriculture and Life Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Bruce Klein

bsklein@wisc.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Internal Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TTB RR MW SN MT DRM BK. Performed the experiments: TTB RR MW SN HF KG. Analyzed the data: TTB RR MW SN HF KG MT DRM KS BK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DRM KS. Wrote the paper: TTB RR DRM BK.