About the Authors

Luke R. Joyce

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, United States of America, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Haider S. Manzer

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Jéssica da C. Mendonça

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Rio de Janeiro State University, Roberto Alcântara Gomes Biology Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Ricardo Villarreal

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Prescilla E. Nagao

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliation Rio de Janeiro State University, Roberto Alcântara Gomes Biology Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Kelly S. Doran

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Kelly.Doran@CUAnschutz.edu (KSD); Kelli.Palmer@UTDallas.edu (KLP); Ziqiang.Guan@Duke.edu (ZG)

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Kelli L. Palmer

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Kelly.Doran@CUAnschutz.edu (KSD); Kelli.Palmer@UTDallas.edu (KLP); Ziqiang.Guan@Duke.edu (ZG)

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, United States of America

Ziqiang Guan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Kelly.Doran@CUAnschutz.edu (KSD); Kelli.Palmer@UTDallas.edu (KLP); Ziqiang.Guan@Duke.edu (ZG)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist