About the Authors

Shaojun Long

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis. Missouri, United States of America

Kevin M. Brown

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis. Missouri, United States of America

Lisa L. Drewry

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis. Missouri, United States of America

Bryan Anthony

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis. Missouri, United States of America

Isabelle Q. H. Phan

Affiliation The Center for Infectious Disease Research, formerly Seattle BioMed, and Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

L. David Sibley

sibley@wustl.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis. Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SL KMB LLD BA IQHP LDS. Formal analysis: SL KMB LLD BA IQHP. Funding acquisition: KMB LLD LDS. Investigation: SL KMB LLD BA IQHP. Methodology: SL KMB LLD BA IQHP. Project administration: LDS. Supervision: LDS. Validation: SL KMB LLD BA IQHP. Visualization: SL KMB LLD BA IQHP. Writing – original draft: SL LDS. Writing – review & editing: SL KMB LLD BA IQHP LDS.