About the Authors

Zhongcheng Zou

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhongcheng Zou, Ashley Chastain

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Ashley Chastain

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhongcheng Zou, Ashley Chastain

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Susan Moir

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jennifer Ford

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Kathryn Trandem

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Elena Martinelli

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Claudia Cicala

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Paul Crocker

Affiliation Cell Biology and Immunology, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom

James Arthos

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Peter D. Sun

psun@nih.gov

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZZ AC PS. Performed the experiments: ZZ AC EM JF KT SM. Analyzed the data: ZZ AC SM JF KT EM CC JA PS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PC. Wrote the paper: ZZ AC SM CC JA PS.