About the Authors

John J. Worthington

Contributed equally to this work with: John J. Worthington, Joanna E. Klementowicz

Affiliations Manchester Immunology Group, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Joanna E. Klementowicz

Contributed equally to this work with: John J. Worthington, Joanna E. Klementowicz

Current address: Transplantation Research Lab, Department of Transplant Surgery, Parnassus Campus, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America.

Affiliations Manchester Immunology Group, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Sayema Rahman

Affiliation Manchester Immunology Group, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Beata I. Czajkowska

Affiliations Manchester Immunology Group, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Catherine Smedley

Affiliations Manchester Immunology Group, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Herman Waldmann

Affiliation Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Tim Sparwasser

Affiliation Institute of Infection Immunology, TWINCORE, Center for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, Hannover, Germany

Richard K. Grencis

Affiliations Manchester Immunology Group, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Mark A. Travis

mark.travis-2@manchester.ac.uk

Affiliations Manchester Immunology Group, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JJW JEK MAT. Performed the experiments: JJW JEK SR BIC CS MAT. Analyzed the data: JJW JEK RKG MAT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HW TS. Wrote the paper: JJW JEK RKG MAT.