About the Authors

Nanda Kumar N. Shanmugam

Affiliation Mucosal Immunology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Shiri Ellenbogen

Affiliation Mucosal Immunology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Estela Trebicka

Affiliation Mucosal Immunology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lijian Wang

Affiliation Mucosal Immunology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Subhankar Mukhopadhyay

Affiliations Developmental Immunology Laboratory, Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Adam Lacy-Hulbert

Affiliations Developmental Immunology Laboratory, Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Carey Ann Gallini

Affiliation Departments of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and Genetics and Complex Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Wendy S. Garrett

Affiliations Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Departments of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and Genetics and Complex Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bobby J. Cherayil

cherayil@helix.mgh.harvard.edu

Affiliations Mucosal Immunology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NKNS BJC. Performed the experiments: NKNS SE ET LW SM. Analyzed the data: NKNS SE ALH BJC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CAG WSG. Wrote the paper: NKNS SE BJC.