About the Authors
- Mengyao Liu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Mengyao Liu, Hui Zhu
Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America
- Hui Zhu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Mengyao Liu, Hui Zhu
Affiliations Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America, Department of Physiology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, People's Republic of China
- Jinquan Li
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Affiliations Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America, State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
- Cristiana C. Garcia
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Affiliation Laboratory of Immunopharmacology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- Wenchao Feng
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Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America
- Liliya N. Kirpotina
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Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America
- Jonathan Hilmer
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Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America
- Luciana P. Tavares
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Affiliation Laboratory of Immunopharmacology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- Arthur W. Layton
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Affiliation Montana Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America
- Mark T. Quinn
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Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America
- Brian Bothner
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Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America
- Mauro M. Teixeira
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Affiliation Laboratory of Immunopharmacology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- Benfang Lei
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* E-mail: blei@montana.edu
Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: ML HZ BL. Performed the experiments: ML HZ JL CCG WF LNK JH LPT BL. Analyzed the data: ML HZ CCG LNK JH AWL MTQ MMT BL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BB. Wrote the paper: ML HZ BL.