About the Authors

André A. Grassmann

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

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Connecticut Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

Crispin Zavala-Alvarado

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Microbial Individuality and Infection Group, Department of Cell Biology and Infection, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

Affiliations Unité de Biologie des Spirochètes, Department of Microbiology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, Université de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Communauté d’universités et d’établissements (COMUE), Bio Sorbonne Paris Cité (BioSPC), Paris, France

Everton B. Bettin

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Connecticut Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biotecnologia, Centro de Desenvolvimento Tecnológico, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sol, Brazil

Mathieu Picardeau

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Unité de Biologie des Spirochètes, Department of Microbiology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Nadia Benaroudj

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Unité de Biologie des Spirochètes, Department of Microbiology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Melissa J. Caimano

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

mcaima@uchc.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Connecticut Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Connecticut Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.