About the Authors

Molly McAdow

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

Hwan Keun Kim

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

Andrea C. DeDent

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

Antoni P. A. Hendrickx

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

Olaf Schneewind

oschnee@bsd.uchicago.edu

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

Dominique M. Missiakas

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

Competing Interests

The authors declare a conflict of interests as inventors of patent applications that are related to the development of Staphylococcus aureus vaccines and are currently under commercial license.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM HKK ACD APAH DMM OS. Performed the experiments: MM HKK APAH ACD. Analyzed the data: MM HKK ACD APAH DMM OS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MM HKK ACD APAH. Wrote the paper: MM ACD DMM OS.