About the Authors

Daniel A. Giles

Affiliation Division of Immunobiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Research Foundation and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Maria E. Moreno-Fernandez

Affiliation Division of Immunobiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Research Foundation and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Traci E. Stankiewicz

Affiliation Division of Immunobiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Research Foundation and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Monica Cappelletti

Affiliation Division of Immunobiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Research Foundation and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Stacey S. Huppert

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Research Foundation and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Yoichiro Iwakura

Affiliation Research Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba, Japan

Chen Dong

Affiliation Department of Immunology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Shiva K. Shanmukhappa

Affiliation Division of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Research Foundation and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Senad Divanovic

senad.divanovic@cchmc.org

Affiliation Division of Immunobiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Research Foundation and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DAG MEMF SSH YI CD SKS SD. Performed the experiments: DAG MEMF TES MC. Analyzed the data: DAG MEMF TES MC SKS SD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SSH YI CD SKS SD. Wrote the paper: DAG MEMF TES MC SSH YI CD SKS SD.