About the Authors

R. Paul Wilson

Contributed equally to this work with: R. Paul Wilson, Sarah A. Tursi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

Current address: GlaxoSmithKline, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Sarah A. Tursi

Contributed equally to this work with: R. Paul Wilson, Sarah A. Tursi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Glenn J. Rapsinski

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Nicole J. Medeiros

Roles Investigation

Current address: Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Long S. Le

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Kevin P. Kotredes

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics and Molecular Biochemistry, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Sajan Patel

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics and Molecular Biochemistry, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Elisabetta Liverani

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Shuang Sun

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Wenhan Zhu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX, United States of America

Laurie Kilpatrick

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Sebastian E. Winter

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX, United States of America

Ana M. Gamero

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

gameroa@temple.edu (AMG);ctukel@temple.edu (CT)

‡ AMG and CT also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics and Molecular Biochemistry, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Çagla Tükel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

gameroa@temple.edu (AMG);ctukel@temple.edu (CT)

‡ AMG and CT also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.