About the Authors

Dagmara I. Kisiela

Contributed equally to this work with: Dagmara I. Kisiela, Hovhannes Avagyan

dagk@uw.edu (DIK); evs@uw.edu (EVS)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Hovhannes Avagyan

Contributed equally to this work with: Dagmara I. Kisiela, Hovhannes Avagyan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Della Friend

Affiliation Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Aachal Jalan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Shivani Gupta

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Gianluca Interlandi

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Yan Liu

Affiliation Department of Urology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Veronika Tchesnokova

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Victoria B. Rodriguez

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

John P. Sumida

Affiliation Analytical Biopharmacy Core, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Roland K. Strong

Affiliation Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Xue-Ru Wu

Affiliation Department of Urology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Wendy E. Thomas

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Evgeni V. Sokurenko

dagk@uw.edu (DIK); evs@uw.edu (EVS)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EVS DIK WET XRW GI SG VT DF JPS RKS. Performed the experiments: DIK HA AJ SG GI YL VBR DF JPS. Analyzed the data: DIK EVS WET VT HA AJ SG GI YL DF JPS RKS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YL XRW WET GI RKS JPS. Wrote the paper: DIK EVS WET.