About the Authors

Richard O. Adeyemi

Contributed equally to this work with: Richard O. Adeyemi, Matthew S. Fuller

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, C.S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Matthew S. Fuller

Contributed equally to this work with: Richard O. Adeyemi, Matthew S. Fuller

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, C.S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

David J. Pintel

pinteld@missouri.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, C.S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ROA MSF DJP. Performed the experiments: ROA MSF. Analyzed the data: ROA MSF DJP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ROA MSF DJP. Wrote the paper: ROA MSF DJP.