About the Authors

Jung Hwa Kim

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Defense Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Shaobo Jiang

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Defense Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Cherilyn A. Elwell

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Defense Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Joanne N. Engel

jengel@medicine.ucsf.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Defense Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JHK CAE JNE . Performed the experiments: JHK SJ. Analyzed the data: JHK SJ CAE JNE. Wrote the paper: JHK JNE.