About the Authors

Tonika Lam

Contributed equally to this work with: Tonika Lam, Lisa M. Thomas

Affiliations Institute for Immunology, School of Medicine and School of Biological Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Lisa M. Thomas

Contributed equally to this work with: Tonika Lam, Lisa M. Thomas

Current address: Genomic Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, United States of America

Affiliation Institute for Immunology, School of Medicine and School of Biological Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Clayton A. White

Affiliation Institute for Immunology, School of Medicine and School of Biological Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Guideng Li

Affiliation Institute for Immunology, School of Medicine and School of Biological Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Egest J. Pone

Affiliation Institute for Immunology, School of Medicine and School of Biological Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Zhenming Xu

Affiliations Institute for Immunology, School of Medicine and School of Biological Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Paolo Casali

pcasali@uci.edu

Affiliations Institute for Immunology, School of Medicine and School of Biological Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Lisa M. Thomas performed experiments at the University of California, Irvine, prior to her employment at the Novartis Institute (San Diego, California, United States of America).

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZX PC. Performed the experiments: TL LMT CAW GL EJP ZX. Analyzed the data: TL LMT CAW GL EJP ZX PC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TL LMT CAW GL EJP ZX PC. Wrote the paper: TL ZX PC.