About the Authors

Dixon Ng

Current address: Microbiology, Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Tony Harn

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Tuba Altindal

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Subramania Kolappan

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Jarrad M. Marles

Current address: Toeroek Associates/ Booz Allen Hamilton, Lorton, Virginia, United States of America

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

Rajan Lala

Affiliation Biology Department, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Ingrid Spielman

Affiliation Biology Department, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Yang Gao

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

Caitlyn A. Hauke

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

Gabriela Kovacikova

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

Zia Verjee

Current address: New York University College of Dentistry, New York, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Ronald K. Taylor

† Deceased.

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

Nicolas Biais

licraig@sfu.ca (LC); nicolas@mechano-micro-biology.org (NB)

Affiliations Biology Department, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America, Graduate Center, City University of New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Lisa Craig

licraig@sfu.ca (LC); nicolas@mechano-micro-biology.org (NB)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RKT NB LC. Formal analysis: DN TH TA NB LC. Funding acquisition: RKT NB LC. Investigation: DN TH TA SK JMM RL IS YG CAH GK ZV. Methodology: RKT NB LC. Project administration: LC. Resources: RKT NB LC. Supervision: RKT NB LC. Validation: NB LC. Visualization: DN TA NB LC. Writing – original draft: LC. Writing – review & editing: RKT NB LC.