About the Authors

W. Jason Cummings

Affiliation Department of Immunology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

David W. Bednarski

Affiliation Department of Immunology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Nancy Maizels

maizels@u.washington.edu

Affiliations Department of Immunology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WJC. Performed the experiments: WJC DWB. Analyzed the data: WJC NM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WJC. Wrote the paper: WJC NM.