About the Authors

Afzaal M. Shareef

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Barbara Ludeke

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Paul Jordan

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Janssen Biopharma, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jerome Deval

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Janssen Biopharma, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Rachel Fearns

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

rfearns@bu.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: The work was funded in part by Alios Biopharma (now Janssen Sciences) and PJ and JD were employees of Alios/ Janssen at the time that the work was performed. PJ is currently an employee of Codexis, JD is currently an employee of Alios, RF currently has sponsored research agreements with F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. and Enanta Pharmaceuticals.