About the Authors

Joel Rivera-Cardona

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Neeha Kakuturu

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Elizabeth F. Rowland

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Qi Wen Teo

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Elizabeth A. Thayer

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Timothy J. C. Tan

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Jiayi Sun

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Collin Kieffer

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Nicholas C. Wu

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliations Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Christopher B. Brooke

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

cbrooke@illinois.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.