About the Authors

Michail S. Lionakis

lionakism@mail.nih.gov (MSL); pmm@nih.gov (PMM)

Affiliations Clinical Mycology Unit, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Molecular Signaling Section, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, NIAID, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Brett G. Fischer

Contributed equally to this work with: Brett G. Fischer, Jean K. Lim

Affiliations Clinical Mycology Unit, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Molecular Signaling Section, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, NIAID, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jean K. Lim

Contributed equally to this work with: Brett G. Fischer, Jean K. Lim

Affiliation Molecular Signaling Section, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, NIAID, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Muthulekha Swamydas

Affiliations Clinical Mycology Unit, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Molecular Signaling Section, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, NIAID, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Wuzhou Wan

Affiliation Molecular Signaling Section, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, NIAID, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Chyi-Chia Richard Lee

Affiliation Laboratory of Pathology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jeffrey I. Cohen

Affiliation Medical Virology Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Phillip Scheinberg

Affiliation Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ji-Liang Gao

Affiliation Molecular Signaling Section, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, NIAID, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Philip M. Murphy

lionakism@mail.nih.gov (MSL); pmm@nih.gov (PMM)

Affiliation Molecular Signaling Section, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, NIAID, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSL PMM. Performed the experiments: MSL BGF JKL MS WW JG. Analyzed the data: MSL BGF JKL MS WW CRL JG PMM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JIC PS JG. Wrote the paper: MSL PMM.