About the Authors

Anirudh K. Singh

Contributed equally to this work with: Anirudh K. Singh, Benjamin Pluvinage

Affiliation Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Benjamin Pluvinage

Contributed equally to this work with: Anirudh K. Singh, Benjamin Pluvinage

Affiliation Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Melanie A. Higgins

Affiliation Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Ankur B. Dalia

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Shireen A. Woodiga

Affiliation Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Matthew Flynn

Affiliations Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Audrey R. Lloyd

Affiliations Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Jeffrey N. Weiser

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Keith A. Stubbs

Affiliation School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

Alisdair B. Boraston

boraston@uvic.ca (ABB); Samantha.King@nationwidechildrens.org (SJK)

Affiliation Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Samantha J. King

boraston@uvic.ca (ABB); Samantha.King@nationwidechildrens.org (SJK)

Affiliations Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AKS BP JNW ABB SJK. Performed the experiments: AKS BP MAH ABD SAW MF ARL ABB. Analyzed the data: AKS BP MAH ABD SAW JNW ABB SJK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KAS. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: AKS BP ABB SJK. Provided critical feedback on the manuscript: MAH ABD SAW MF ARL JNW KAS.