About the Authors

Kheng H. Tan

Contributed equally to this work with: Kheng H. Tan, Christine A. Seers, Stuart G. Dashper

Affiliation Oral Health CRC, Melbourne Dental School, Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Christine A. Seers

Contributed equally to this work with: Kheng H. Tan, Christine A. Seers, Stuart G. Dashper

Affiliation Oral Health CRC, Melbourne Dental School, Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Stuart G. Dashper

Contributed equally to this work with: Kheng H. Tan, Christine A. Seers, Stuart G. Dashper

Affiliation Oral Health CRC, Melbourne Dental School, Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Helen L. Mitchell

Affiliation Oral Health CRC, Melbourne Dental School, Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

James S. Pyke

Affiliation Oral Health CRC, Melbourne Dental School, Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Vincent Meuric

Affiliation Oral Health CRC, Melbourne Dental School, Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Nada Slakeski

Affiliation Oral Health CRC, Melbourne Dental School, Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Steven M. Cleal

Affiliation Oral Health CRC, Melbourne Dental School, Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Jenny L. Chambers

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Malcolm J. McConville

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Eric C. Reynolds

e.reynolds@unimelb.edu.au

Affiliation Oral Health CRC, Melbourne Dental School, Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KHT CAS SGD MJM ECR. Performed the experiments: KHT HLM JSP VM JLC. Analyzed the data: SGD CAS KHT HLM JSP ECR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NS SMC. Wrote the paper: SGD KHT CAS ECR.