About the Authors

Kenichi Shimada

Affiliation Division of Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, and Immunology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Shuang Chen

Affiliation Division of Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, and Immunology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Paul W. Dempsey

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Rosalinda Sorrentino

Affiliation Division of Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, and Immunology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Randa Alsabeh

Affiliation Division of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Anatoly V. Slepenkin

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Ellena Peterson

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Terence M. Doherty

Affiliation Division of Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, and Immunology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

David Underhill

Affiliation Immunology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Timothy R. Crother

Affiliation Division of Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, and Immunology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Moshe Arditi

moshe.arditi@cshs.org

Affiliation Division of Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, and Immunology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KS PWD TRC MA. Performed the experiments: KS SC RS RA TRC. Analyzed the data: KS SC PWD RS RA AVS EP TMD DU TRC MA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SC PWD AVS EP DU. Wrote the paper: KS TMD TRC MA.