About the Authors

Jill A. Dembowski

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Neal A. DeLuca

ndeluca@pitt.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JAD NAD. Performed the experiments: JAD NAD. Analyzed the data: JAD NAD. Wrote the paper: JAD NAD.