About the Authors

Erin R. Green

Affiliation Graduate Program in Molecular Microbiology, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Stacie Clark

Affiliation Graduate Program in Molecular Microbiology, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gregory T. Crimmins

Current address: Remedy Plan, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Matthias Mack

Affiliation Universitatsklinikum Regensburg, Innere Medizin II/Nephrologie-Transplantation, Regensburg, Germany

Carol A. Kumamoto

Affiliations Graduate Program in Molecular Microbiology, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Joan Mecsas

joan.mecsas@tufts.edu

Affiliations Graduate Program in Molecular Microbiology, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ERG GTC JM. Data curation: ERG JM. Formal analysis: ERG SC JM. Funding acquisition: JM. Investigation: ERG SC. Methodology: ERG GTC CAK JM. Project administration: JM. Resources: MM JM. Supervision: JM. Validation: ERG SC. Visualization: ERG. Writing – original draft: ERG JM. Writing – review & editing: ERG SC GTC MM CAK JM.