About the Authors

George Liechti

Contributed equally to this work with: George Liechti, Erkin Kuru

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Erkin Kuru

Contributed equally to this work with: George Liechti, Erkin Kuru

Current address: Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Mathanraj Packiam

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yen-Pang Hsu

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Srinivas Tekkam

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Edward Hall

Current address: Department of Chemistry, Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Jonathan T. Rittichier

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Michael VanNieuwenhze

mvannieu@indiana.edu (MV); ybrun@indiana.edu (YVB); amaurelli@phhp.ufl.edu (ATM)

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Yves V. Brun

mvannieu@indiana.edu (MV); ybrun@indiana.edu (YVB); amaurelli@phhp.ufl.edu (ATM)

Affiliation Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Anthony T. Maurelli

mvannieu@indiana.edu (MV); ybrun@indiana.edu (YVB); amaurelli@phhp.ufl.edu (ATM)

Current address: Emerging Pathogens Institute and Department of Environmental and Global Health, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GL EK MV YVB ATM. Performed the experiments: GL EK MP JTR ST EH YPH. Analyzed the data: GL EK MP MV YVB ATM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JTR ST EH YPH MV YVB. Wrote the paper: GL EK MP MV YVB ATM. Synthesized compounds essential to this work: JTR ST EH YPH.