About the Authors

Sumati Rajagopalan

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Yenan T Bryceson

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Shanmuga P Kuppusamy

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Daniel E Geraghty

Affiliation Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Arnold van der Meer

Affiliation Department of Blood Transfusion and Transplantation Immunology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Irma Joosten

Affiliation Department of Blood Transfusion and Transplantation Immunology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Eric O Long

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: eLong@nih.gov

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

SR, YTB, and EOL conceived and designed the experiments. SR, YTB, SPK, and AV performed the experiments. SR, YTB, DEG, AV, IJ, and EOL analyzed the data. SR, YTB, SPK, DEG, AV, and IJ contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. SR and EOL wrote the paper.