About the Authors

April E. Price

Affiliations Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

R. Lee Reinhardt

Current address: Department of Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Affiliations Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Hong-Erh Liang

Affiliations Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Richard M. Locksley

locksley@medicine.ucsf.edu

Affiliations Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

RML serves on the Scientific Review Board for Genentech/Roche and for the American Asthma Foundation. This does not alter the author’s adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AEP RLR RML. Performed the experiments: AEP. Analyzed the data: AEP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RLR HEL. Wrote the paper: AEP RML.