About the Authors

Hong Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Li, Tiandi Yang, Tingting Liao

Affiliations West China Marshall Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Center of Infectious Diseases, Division of Infectious Diseases, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, Helicobacter pylori Research Laboratory and Ondek Pty Ltd., School of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Marshall Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Training, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia

Tiandi Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Li, Tiandi Yang, Tingting Liao

Current address: The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, The Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom

Tingting Liao

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Li, Tiandi Yang, Tingting Liao

Affiliation Helicobacter pylori Research Laboratory and Ondek Pty Ltd., School of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Marshall Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Training, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia

Aleksandra W. Debowski

Affiliations Helicobacter pylori Research Laboratory and Ondek Pty Ltd., School of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Marshall Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Training, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

Hans-Olof Nilsson

Affiliation Helicobacter pylori Research Laboratory and Ondek Pty Ltd., School of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Marshall Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Training, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia

Alma Fulurija

Affiliation Helicobacter pylori Research Laboratory and Ondek Pty Ltd., School of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Marshall Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Training, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia

Stuart M. Haslam

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom

Barbara Mulloy

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom

Anne Dell

a.dell@imperial.ac.uk (AD); mbenghezal@swissvitamin.ch (MB)

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom

Keith A. Stubbs

Affiliation School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

Barry J. Marshall

Affiliation Helicobacter pylori Research Laboratory and Ondek Pty Ltd., School of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Marshall Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Training, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia

Mohammed Benghezal

a.dell@imperial.ac.uk (AD); mbenghezal@swissvitamin.ch (MB)

Affiliations Helicobacter pylori Research Laboratory and Ondek Pty Ltd., School of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Marshall Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Training, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia, Swiss Vitamin Institute, Route de la Corniche 1, Epalinges, Switzerland

Competing Interests

HON and MB are former employees of Ondek Pty Ltd. AF is a current employee of Ondek Pty Ltd. The remaining authors disclose no conflicts.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MB. Formal analysis: TY SMH BM AD. Funding acquisition: HL AWD SMH AD KAS. Investigation: HL TY TL AWD HON AF SMH BM AD. Methodology: HL TY. Project administration: AD MB. Resources: AD AF BJM MB. Supervision: AD MB. Validation: AD MB. Visualization: HL TY TL AWD. Writing – original draft: HL TY TL AWD SMH BM AD KAS MB. Writing – review & editing: KAS BJM MB.