About the Authors
- Simon F. Dufresne
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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
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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
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Affiliations Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, China Medical University, Shenyang, People's Republic of China
- Ekaterina Dadachova
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Affiliation Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Janet F. Staab
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Affiliation Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Thomas F. Patterson
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Affiliation University of Texas Health Science Center and South Texas Veterans Healthcare System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
- Marta Feldmesser
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Affiliation Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Kieren A. Marr
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* E-mail: 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
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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.