About the Authors

Katja Koeppen

Katja.Koeppen@Dartmouth.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Thomas H. Hampton

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Michael Jarek

Affiliation Genome Analytics Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany

Maren Scharfe

Affiliation Genome Analytics Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany

Scott A. Gerber

Affiliations Departments of Genetics and Biochemistry, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America, Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

Daniel W. Mielcarz

Affiliation Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

Elora G. Demers

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Emily L. Dolben

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

John H. Hammond

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Deborah A. Hogan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Bruce A. Stanton

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KK THH MJ SAG ELD JHH DAH BAS. Performed the experiments: KK MS SAG DWM EGD ELD JHH. Analyzed the data: KK THH SAG DWM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJ MS SAG DWM EGD DAH BAS. Wrote the paper: KK THH SAG ELD JHH DAH BAS.