About the Authors

Qiong-Ying Hu

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Elizabeth Fink

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Yang Hong

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Cathy Wang

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Chris K. Grant

Affiliation Custom Monoclonals International, West Sacramento, California, United States of America

John H. Elder

jelder@scripps.edu

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QYH JHE. Performed the experiments: QYH EF YH JHE. Analyzed the data: QYH JHE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CW CKG. Wrote the paper: QYH JHE.