About the Authors

Shiyuan Hong

Affiliation Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Laimonis A. Laimins

l-laimins@northwestern.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH LAL. Performed the experiments: SH. Analyzed the data: SH LAL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH. Wrote the paper: SH LAL.