About the Authors

Liliane Fossati-Jimack

Contributed equally to this work with: Liliane Fossati-Jimack, Guang Sheng Ling

Affiliation Centre for Complement and Inflammation Research, Division of Immunology and Inflammation, Department of Medicine, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Guang Sheng Ling

Contributed equally to this work with: Liliane Fossati-Jimack, Guang Sheng Ling

Affiliation Centre for Complement and Inflammation Research, Division of Immunology and Inflammation, Department of Medicine, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Andrea Cortini

Affiliation Centre for Complement and Inflammation Research, Division of Immunology and Inflammation, Department of Medicine, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Marta Szajna

Affiliation Centre for Complement and Inflammation Research, Division of Immunology and Inflammation, Department of Medicine, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Talat H. Malik

Affiliation Centre for Complement and Inflammation Research, Division of Immunology and Inflammation, Department of Medicine, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Jacqueline U. McDonald

Affiliation Cardiff Institute of Infection and Immunity, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Matthew C. Pickering

Affiliation Centre for Complement and Inflammation Research, Division of Immunology and Inflammation, Department of Medicine, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

H. Terence Cook

Affiliation Centre for Complement and Inflammation Research, Division of Immunology and Inflammation, Department of Medicine, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Philip R. Taylor

Affiliation Cardiff Institute of Infection and Immunity, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Marina Botto

m.botto@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Complement and Inflammation Research, Division of Immunology and Inflammation, Department of Medicine, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Critically reviewed manuscript: PRT HTC MCP.. Conceived and designed the experiments: MB HTC PRT LFJ GSL. Performed the experiments: LFJ GSL AC MS JUM THM. Analyzed the data: LFJ GSL MB AC MCP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MCP PRT JUM. Wrote the paper: LFJ MB GSL.