About the Authors

Christopher J Tonkin

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher J Tonkin, Céline K Carret

Affiliation The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia

Céline K Carret

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher J Tonkin, Céline K Carret

Current address: Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisboa, Portugal

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Manoj T Duraisingh

Current address: Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia

Till S Voss

Affiliation The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia

Stuart A Ralph

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Mirja Hommel

Affiliation The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia

Michael F Duffy

Affiliation Department of Medicine RMH/WH, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Liliana Mancio da Silva

Affiliation Unité de Biologie des Interactions Hôte-Parasite, Institut Pasteur and CNRS, Paris, France

Artur Scherf

Affiliation Unité de Biologie des Interactions Hôte-Parasite, Institut Pasteur and CNRS, Paris, France

Alasdair Ivens

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Terence P Speed

Affiliation The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia

James G Beeson

Affiliation The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia

Alan F Cowman

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: cowman@wehi.edu.au

Affiliation The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

CJT, CKC, MTD, TSV, SAR, MH, MFD, LMdS, AS, AI, TPS, JGB, and AFC worked closely together to design, perform, and interpret experiments. CJT and AFC wrote the paper.