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.