About the Authors

Slavena Vylkova

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Michael C. Lorenz

Michael.Lorenz@uth.tmc.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SV MCL. Performed the experiments: SV. Analyzed the data: SV MCL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SV MCL. Wrote the paper: SV MCL.