About the Authors

Rajiv L. Gaur

Contributed equally to this work with: Rajiv L. Gaur, Kangning Ren

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Kangning Ren

Contributed equally to this work with: Rajiv L. Gaur, Kangning Ren

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Antje Blumenthal

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City, New York, United States of America

Suresh Bhamidi

Affiliation Mycobacteria Research Laboratories, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Sara Gibbs

Affiliation Mycobacteria Research Laboratories, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Mary Jackson

Affiliations Mycobacteria Research Laboratories, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Immunology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Richard N. Zare

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Sabine Ehrt

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City, New York, United States of America

Joel D. Ernst

Affiliations Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York City, New York, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York City, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York City, New York, United States of America

Niaz Banaei

niazbanaei@stanford.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RLG KR AB MJ NB. Performed the experiments: RLG KR AB SB SG NB. Analyzed the data: RLG KR AB MG NB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RNZ. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: RLG KR MJ SE JDE NB.