About the Authors

Olivier Renaudet

Affiliations Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, The Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Département de Chimie Moléculaire, UMR-CNRS 5250 and ICMG FR 2607, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France

Gargi Dasgupta

Affiliation Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, The Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Ilham Bettahi

Affiliation Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, The Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Alda Shi

Affiliation Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, The Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Anthony B. Nesburn

Affiliation Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, The Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Pascal Dumy

Affiliation Département de Chimie Moléculaire, UMR-CNRS 5250 and ICMG FR 2607, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France

Lbachir BenMohamed

Lbenmoha@uci.edu

Affiliations Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, The Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Institute for Immunology, University of California Irvine Medical Center, Irvine, California, United States of America, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California Irvine Medical Center, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OR GD LB. Performed the experiments: OR GD IB AS LB. Analyzed the data: OR GD IB LB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OR GD ABN PD LB. Wrote the paper: OR GD ABN LB.