About the Authors

Meenu Kesarwani

Current address: Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Burns Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ronen Hazan

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Burns Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jianxin He

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Burns Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

YokAi Que

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Burns Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yiorgos Apidianakis

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Burns Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Biliana Lesic

Current address: Danone Research, RD128, Palaiseau, France

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Burns Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gaoping Xiao

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Burns Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Valérie Dekimpe

Affiliation INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, Laval, Québec, Canada

Sylvain Milot

Affiliation INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, Laval, Québec, Canada

Eric Deziel

Affiliation INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, Laval, Québec, Canada

François Lépine

Affiliation INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, Laval, Québec, Canada

Laurence G. Rahme

rahme@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Burns Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MK LGR. Performed the experiments: MK RH JH YA YQ BL GX VD SM. Analyzed the data: MK ED FL LGR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FL LGR. Wrote the paper: MK LGR.