About the Authors

Penghua Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Penghua Wang, Fengwei Bai

penghua.wang@yale.edu

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Fengwei Bai

Contributed equally to this work with: Penghua Wang, Fengwei Bai

Affiliations Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States of America

Lauren A. Zenewicz

Current address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Jianfeng Dai

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

David Gate

Affiliation Regenerative Medicine Institute, Departments of Biomedical Sciences and Neurosurgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Gong Cheng

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Long Yang

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Feng Qian

Affiliation Section of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Xiaoling Yuan

Affiliation Section of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Ruth R. Montgomery

Affiliation Section of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Richard A. Flavell

Affiliations Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America

Terrence Town

Affiliations Regenerative Medicine Institute, Departments of Biomedical Sciences and Neurosurgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Erol Fikrig

Affiliations Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PW FB EF. Performed the experiments: PW FB LAZ JD DG GC LY FQ XY. Analyzed the data: PW FB RM TT RAF EF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RM RAF. Wrote the paper: PW TT EF.