About the Authors

Michelle L. Parker

Contributed equally to this work with: Michelle L. Parker, Simon Houston

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Simon Houston

Contributed equally to this work with: Michelle L. Parker, Simon Houston

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Helena Pětrošová

Affiliation Matrix Dynamics Group, Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Karen V. Lithgow

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Rebecca Hof

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Charmaine Wetherell

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Wei-Chien Kao

Affiliation Matrix Dynamics Group, Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Yi-Pin Lin

Current address: Division of Infectious Diseases, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

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

Tara J. Moriarty

Affiliation Matrix Dynamics Group, Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Rhodaba Ebady

Affiliation Matrix Dynamics Group, Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Caroline E. Cameron

caroc@uvic.ca (CEC); mboulang@uvic.ca (MJB)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Martin J. Boulanger

caroc@uvic.ca (CEC); mboulang@uvic.ca (MJB)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors declare no financial or other conflict of interest.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MLP SH CEC MJB. Formal analysis: MLP SH KVL YPL CEC MJB. Funding acquisition: MJB CEC TJM. Investigation: MLP SH HP KVL RH CW WCK YPL RE. Project administration: MJB CEC TJM. Resources: MJB CEC TJM. Supervision: MJB CEC TJM. Visualization: MLP SH HP KVL CEC MJB. Writing – original draft: MLP SH CEC MJB. Writing – review & editing: MLP SH HP KVL TJM CEC MJB.