About the Authors

William H. McCoy IV

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Xiaoli Wang

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Wayne M. Yokoyama

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Ted H. Hansen

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Daved H. Fremont

fremont@wustl.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: WHM XW THH DHF. Performed the experiments: WHM XW DHF. Analyzed the data: WHM XW THH DHF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WHM XW THH WMY DHF. Wrote the paper: WHM XW THH WMY DHF.