About the Authors

Simon F. Dufresne

Contributed equally to this work with: Simon F. Dufresne, Kausik Datta

Affiliations Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Département de Microbiologie et Immunologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Kausik Datta

Contributed equally to this work with: Simon F. Dufresne, Kausik Datta

Affiliation Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Xinming Li

Affiliations Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, China Medical University, Shenyang, People's Republic of China

Ekaterina Dadachova

Affiliation Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Janet F. Staab

Affiliation Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Thomas F. Patterson

Affiliation University of Texas Health Science Center and South Texas Veterans Healthcare System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Marta Feldmesser

Affiliation Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Kieren A. Marr

kmarr4@jhmi.edu

Affiliations Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

Intellectual content of this work is under patent application (US Provisional Application #61/263,498; International Patent Cooperation Treaty #PCT/US10/57819). This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SFD KD XL MF ED JFS TFP KAM. Performed the experiments: SFD KD XL ED. Analyzed the data: SFD KD XL MF ED JFS TFP KAM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MF ED TFP. Wrote the paper: SFD KD JFS KAM. Critical review for important intellectual content: MF ED JFS TFP KAM.