About the Authors

Rodrigo J. Gonzalez

Current address: Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

M. Chelsea Lane

Current address: National Institutes of Health, Office of the Director, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Nikki J. Wagner

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Eric H. Weening

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Virginia L. Miller

vlmiller@med.unc.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RJG VLM. Performed the experiments: RJG MCL NJW EHW. Analyzed the data: RJG NJW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RJG MCL. Wrote the paper: RJG VLM.