About the Authors

Des Raj Kashyap

Affiliation Indiana University School of Medicine–Northwest, Gary, Indiana, United States of America

Annemarie Rompca

Affiliation Indiana University School of Medicine–Northwest, Gary, Indiana, United States of America

Ahmed Gaballa

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

John D. Helmann

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Jefferson Chan

Affiliation Departments of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Christopher J. Chang

Affiliation Departments of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Iztok Hozo

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Indiana University Northwest, Gary, Indiana, United States of America

Dipika Gupta

Affiliation Indiana University School of Medicine–Northwest, Gary, Indiana, United States of America

Roman Dziarski

rdziar@iun.edu

Affiliation Indiana University School of Medicine–Northwest, Gary, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DRK AG JDH DG RD. Performed the experiments: DRK AR RD. Analyzed the data: DRK AG JDH IH DG RD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AG JDH JC CJC. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: RD.