About the Authors

Quynh T Phan

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

Carter L Myers

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

Yue Fu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America , David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Donald C Sheppard

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Michael R Yeaman

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America , David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

William H Welch

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Ashraf S Ibrahim

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America , David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

John E Edwards Jr.

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America , David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Scott G Filler

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: sfiller@ucla.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America , David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

YF, MRY, ASI, JEE, and SGF have equity in NovaDigm Therapeutics, Inc.

Author Contributions

QTP, CLM, YF, DCS, MRY, WHW, ASI, JEE, and SGF conceived and designed the experiments. QTP, CLM, YF, WHW, and ASI performed the experiments. QTP, CLM, YF, DCS, MRY, WHW, and SGF analyzed the data. WHW and ASI contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. DCS, MRY, JEE, and SGF wrote the paper.