About the Authors

Scott J. Schachtele

Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Translational Research, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Shuxian Hu

Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Translational Research, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

James R. Lokensgard

loken006@umn.edu

Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Translational Research, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS SH JL. Performed the experiments: SS SH. Analyzed the data: SS SH JL. Wrote the paper: SS JL.