About the Authors

Emily Cullum

Contributed equally to this work with: Emily Cullum, Yunys Perez-Betancourt, Miaomiao Shi

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

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Committee on Immunology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Yunys Perez-Betancourt

Contributed equally to this work with: Emily Cullum, Yunys Perez-Betancourt, Miaomiao Shi

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Howard T. Ricketts Laboratory, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Miaomiao Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Emily Cullum, Yunys Perez-Betancourt, Miaomiao Shi

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Howard T. Ricketts Laboratory, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Eirinaios Gkika

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Olaf Schneewind

† Deceased.

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Dominique Missiakas

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

dmissiak@bsd.uchicago.edu (DM); tgolovki@bsd.uchicago.edu (TG)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Howard T. Ricketts Laboratory, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Tatyana Golovkina

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

dmissiak@bsd.uchicago.edu (DM); tgolovki@bsd.uchicago.edu (TG)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Committee on Immunology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Committee on Microbiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Committee on Genetics, Genomics and System Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.