About the Authors

M. Megan Reynolds

Affiliation Department of Microbial and Molecular Pathogenesis, College of Medicine, Texas A & M University System Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Lydia Bogomolnaya

Affiliation Department of Microbial and Molecular Pathogenesis, College of Medicine, Texas A & M University System Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Jinbai Guo

Affiliation Department of Microbial and Molecular Pathogenesis, College of Medicine, Texas A & M University System Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Lindsay Aldrich

Affiliation Department of Microbial and Molecular Pathogenesis, College of Medicine, Texas A & M University System Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Danial Bokhari

Affiliation Department of Microbial and Molecular Pathogenesis, College of Medicine, Texas A & M University System Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Carlos A. Santiviago

Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Michael McClelland

Affiliations Vaccine Research Institute of San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Helene Andrews-Polymenis

handrews@medicine.tamhsc.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbial and Molecular Pathogenesis, College of Medicine, Texas A & M University System Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MMR HLAP LB. Performed the experiments: MMR LB JG DB LA. Analyzed the data: MMR HLAP LB JG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CAS MM. Wrote the paper: MMR HLAP MM JG LB CAS.