About the Authors

Juni Sarkar

Contributed equally to this work with: Juni Sarkar, Ian H. McHardy

Affiliation School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ian H. McHardy

Contributed equally to this work with: Juni Sarkar, Ian H. McHardy

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Emil J. Simanian

Affiliation School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Wenyuan Shi

Affiliations School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Renate Lux

rlux@dentistry.ucla.edu

Affiliation School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IM WS RL. Performed the experiments: IM JS ES. Analyzed the data: IM JS RL. Wrote the paper: IM JS RL.