About the Authors

Aria Eshraghi

Current address: Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Shandee D. Dixon

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Batcha Tamilselvam

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Emily Jin-Kyung Kim

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Amandeep Gargi

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Julia C. Kulik

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Robert Damoiseaux

Affiliation California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Steven R. Blanke

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Kenneth A. Bradley

kbradley@microbio.ucla.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AE SDD BT AG RD SRB KAB. Performed the experiments: AE SDD EJKK BT AG JCK RD. Analyzed the data: AE SDD EJKK BT AG JCK RD SRB KAB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RD. Wrote the paper: AE BT AG SRB KAB.