About the Authors

Shalaka Samant

Affiliation Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Hyunwoo Lee

Affiliation Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Mahmood Ghassemi

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Immunology and Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Juan Chen

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Immunology and Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

James L Cook

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Immunology and Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Alexander S Mankin

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: shura@uic.edu

Affiliation Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Alexander A Neyfakh

Affiliation Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

SS, JLC, and AAN conceived and designed the experiments. SS, MG, and JC performed the experiments. HL, MG, JLC, and ASM analyzed the data. contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. SS and ASM wrote the paper.