Acknowledgements
We thank Jorge C. Escalante-Semerena and Vineet K. Singh for the
generous gift of strains and plasmids, Dr. Paul Lawson and the Center
for Microbial Identification and Taxonomy for help with GC-FAME
analysis, and Drs. Sunil Bansal and Amrita Cheema in the Georgetown
University Metabolomics and Proteomics Shared Resource for help with
LC-MS analysis, which is partially supported by NIH/NCI/CCSG grant
P30-CA051008. We also thank members of the Georgetown University
Microbial Interest Group as well as Brinsmade lab members for their
helpful comments and discussions.
This work was supported in part by NIH grant R01 AI137403 to SRB. The
funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation,
or the decision to submit the work for publication.