About the Authors

Chen Ding

Contributed equally to this work with: Chen Ding, Genevieve M. Vidanes

Current address: Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Affiliation School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Genevieve M. Vidanes

Contributed equally to this work with: Chen Ding, Genevieve M. Vidanes

Affiliation School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Sarah L. Maguire

Affiliation School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Alessandro Guida

Affiliation School of Medicine and Medical Science, Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

John M. Synnott

Affiliation School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

David R. Andes

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Geraldine Butler

gbutler@ucd.ie

Affiliation School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GB DRA GV CD. Performed the experiments: GMV CD JMS DRA. Analyzed the data: SLM AG. Wrote the paper: GB CD GMV.