About the Authors

Travis Hartman

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Brian Weinrick

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Catherine Vilchèze

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Michael Berney

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Joanne Tufariello

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Gregory M. Cook

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Otago School of Medical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

William R. Jacobs Jr.

jacobsw@hhmi.org

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TH BW CV MB WRJ. Performed the experiments: TH. Analyzed the data: TH BW CV MB JT GMC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TH CV JT. Wrote the paper: TH BW CV MB GMC JT WRJ.