About the Authors

Elisa Deriu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Gayle M. Boxx

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Xuesong He

Affiliation School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Calvin Pan

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Sammy David Benavidez

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Lujia Cen

Affiliation School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Nora Rozengurt

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, CURE Imaging and Stem Cell Biology Core, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Wenyuan Shi

Affiliation School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Genhong Cheng

GCheng@mednet.ucla.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ED GMB GC. Performed the experiments: ED GMB XH SDB LC. Analyzed the data: ED GMB XH CP NR GC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WS. Wrote the paper: ED.