About the Authors

Teal S. Hallstrand

tealh@u.washington.edu

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Mark M. Wurfel

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Ying Lai

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Zhanglin Ni

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Michael H. Gelb

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

William A. Altemeier

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Richard P. Beyer

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Moira L. Aitken

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

William R. Henderson Jr

Affiliation Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TH MMW MLA WRHJ. Performed the experiments: TH MMW YL ZN WA. Analyzed the data: TH RPB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MHG WA. Wrote the paper: TH MMW MHG WA MLA WRHJ.