About the Authors

Soratree Charoenthongtrakul

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Linlin Gao

Affiliation Graduate Program in Cancer Biology, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Kislay Parvatiyar

Current address: Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

David Lee

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Edward W. Harhaj

eharhaj1@jhmi.edu

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

Edward Harhaj is an Academic Editor of PLOS ONE. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SC LG KP EWH. Performed the experiments: SC LG KP DL. Analyzed the data: SC LG KP EWH. Wrote the paper: SC EWH.