About the Authors

Vanessa C. McFadden

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology College of Medicine University of Illinois at Chicago 909 South Wolcott Avenue Chicago, IL, United States of America

Rasha E. Shalaby

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology College of Medicine University of Illinois at Chicago 909 South Wolcott Avenue Chicago, IL, United States of America

Saira Iram

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology College of Medicine University of Illinois at Chicago 909 South Wolcott Avenue Chicago, IL, United States of America

Claudia E. Oropeza

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology College of Medicine University of Illinois at Chicago 909 South Wolcott Avenue Chicago, IL, United States of America

Jennifer A. Landolfi

Affiliation Toxicology Research Laboratory Department of Pharmacology College of Medicine University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL, United States of America

Alexander V. Lyubimov

Affiliation Toxicology Research Laboratory Department of Pharmacology College of Medicine University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL, United States of America

Mark Maienschein-Cline

Affiliation Research Resources Center College of Medicine University of Illinois at Chicago 835 South Wolcott Avenue Chicago, IL, United States of America

Stefan J. Green

Affiliation Research Resources Center College of Medicine University of Illinois at Chicago 835 South Wolcott Avenue Chicago, IL, United States of America

Klaus H. Kaestner

Affiliation Department of Genetics University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Alan McLachlan

mclach@uic.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology College of Medicine University of Illinois at Chicago 909 South Wolcott Avenue Chicago, IL, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AM. Data curation: MMC SJG. Formal analysis: VCM MMC SJG AM. Funding acquisition: VCM AVL AM. Investigation: VCM RES SI CEO JAL. Methodology: SJG KHK AM. Project administration: AVL AM. Resources: KHK AM. Software: MMC SJG. Supervision: AM. Validation: VCM AM. Visualization: AM. Writing – original draft: AM. Writing – review & editing: VCM JAL MMC SJG KHK AM.