About the Authors

Terry W. Bilverstone

Contributed equally to this work with: Terry W. Bilverstone, Megan Garland

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Clostridia Research Group, BBSRC/EPSRC Synthetic Biology Research Centre, School of Life Sciences, Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United kingdom

Megan Garland

Contributed equally to this work with: Terry W. Bilverstone, Megan Garland

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Cancer Biology Program, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America

Rory J. Cave

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Clostridia Research Group, BBSRC/EPSRC Synthetic Biology Research Centre, School of Life Sciences, Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United kingdom

Michelle L. Kelly

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Clostridia Research Group, BBSRC/EPSRC Synthetic Biology Research Centre, School of Life Sciences, Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United kingdom

Martina Tholen

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America

Donna M. Bouley

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Comparative Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America

Philip Kaye

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Histopathology, Nottingham University Hospitals and University of Nottingham NDDC NIHR BRC, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Nigel P. Minton

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Clostridia Research Group, BBSRC/EPSRC Synthetic Biology Research Centre, School of Life Sciences, Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United kingdom, NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Matthew Bogyo

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America

Sarah A. Kuehne

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

s.a.kuehne@bham.ac.uk (SAK); roman.melnyk@sickkids.ca (RAM)

Affiliation Oral Microbiology Group, School of Dentistry and Institute of Microbiology and Infection, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Roman A. Melnyk

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

s.a.kuehne@bham.ac.uk (SAK); roman.melnyk@sickkids.ca (RAM)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, and Program in Molecular Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.