About the Authors

Dal Young Kim

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Josephine M. Reynaud

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Aliaksandra Rasalouskaya

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Ivan Akhrymuk

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

James A. Mobley

Affiliations Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Ilya Frolov

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Elena I. Frolova

efrolova@uab.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IF EIF. Performed the experiments: DYK JMR AR IA JAM IF EIF. Analyzed the data: DYK JMR IA JAM IF EIF. Wrote the paper: IF EIF.