About the Authors

Daniel Pletzer

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Microbial Diseases and Immunity Research, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Sarah C. Mansour

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Centre for Microbial Diseases and Immunity Research, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Robert E. W. Hancock

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

bob@hancocklab.com

Affiliation Centre for Microbial Diseases and Immunity Research, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: The peptides described here have been filed for patent protection, assigned to REWH’s employer the University of British Columbia, and licenced to ABT Innovations Inc. in which the University of British Columbia and REWH own shares.