About the Authors

Jin Hwan Park

Affiliation National Research Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Toxicology, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, and Center for Food Safety and Toxicology, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

Youmi Jo

Affiliation National Research Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Toxicology, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, and Center for Food Safety and Toxicology, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

Song Yee Jang

Affiliation Infection and Immunity Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, South Korea

Haenaem Kwon

Affiliations National Research Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Toxicology, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, and Center for Food Safety and Toxicology, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, Infection and Immunity Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, South Korea

Yasuhiko Irie

Current Address: Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

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

Matthew R. Parsek

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

Myung Hee Kim

Affiliation Infection and Immunity Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, South Korea

Sang Ho Choi

choish@snu.ac.kr

Affiliation National Research Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Toxicology, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, and Center for Food Safety and Toxicology, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SHC MHK MRP. Performed the experiments: JHP YJ SYJ HK YI. Analyzed the data: JHP SHC MHK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SHC MHK MRP. Wrote the paper: JHP SHC MHK YI MRP.