About the Authors

Lee A. Borthwick

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Academic Unit of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Infection and Immunity, The University of Sheffield, The Medical School, Sheffield, S10 2RX, United Kingdom

Mathieu Kerbiriou

Current address: Inserm UMR 1078, Génétique, Génomique Fonctionnelle et Biotechnologies, 46 rue Félix Le Dantec, 29218, Brest Cedex2, France

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Academic Unit of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Infection and Immunity, The University of Sheffield, The Medical School, Sheffield, S10 2RX, United Kingdom

Christopher J. Taylor

Affiliation Academic Unit of Child Health, University of Sheffield, Stephenson Wing, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield, S10 2TH, United Kingdom

Giorgio Cozza

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Via Ugo Bassi 58/B 35131, Padova, Italy

Ioan Lascu

Affiliation University of Bordeaux, France, and Institut de Biochimie et Genetique Cellulaires, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 5095, 33077, Bordeaux, France

Edith H. Postel

Affiliation Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, UMDNJ, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Diane Cassidy

Affiliation Medical Research Institute/CVS Diabetes Lung, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 9SY, United Kingdom

Pascal Trouvé

Affiliation Inserm UMR 1078, Génétique, Génomique Fonctionnelle et Biotechnologies, 46 rue Félix Le Dantec, 29218, Brest Cedex2, France

Anil Mehta

Affiliation Medical Research Institute/CVS Diabetes Lung, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 9SY, United Kingdom

Louise Robson

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom

Richmond Muimo

r.muimo@sheffield.ac.uk

Affiliation Academic Unit of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Infection and Immunity, The University of Sheffield, The Medical School, Sheffield, S10 2RX, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RM AM CJT LR. Performed the experiments: LAB MK GC DC IL EHP LR PT. Analyzed the data: LAB MK PT GC CJT IL DC AM RM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IL EHP. Wrote the paper: MK GC IL LR AM RM.