About the Authors

Smita Gopinath

Contributed equally to this work with: Smita Gopinath, Andrew Hotson

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Andrew Hotson

Contributed equally to this work with: Smita Gopinath, Andrew Hotson

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Baxter Laboratory of Genetic Pharmacology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Jennifer Johns

Affiliation Department of Comparative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Garry Nolan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Baxter Laboratory of Genetic Pharmacology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Denise Monack

dmonack@stanford.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG AH. Performed the experiments: SG AH JJ. Analyzed the data: SG AH JJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG AH JJ GN DM. Wrote the paper: SG DM.