About the Authors

Andrea Turner

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea Turner, Liang-Cheng Li

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Liang-Cheng Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea Turner, Liang-Cheng Li

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Tania Pilli

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Lixia Qian

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Elizabeth Louise Wiley

Affiliation Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Suman Setty

Affiliation Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Konstantin Christov

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Lakshmy Ganesh

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Ajay V. Maker

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Peifeng Li

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Prasad Kanteti

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Tapas K. Das Gupta

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Bellur S. Prabhakar

bprabhak@uic.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AT LCL BSP. Performed the experiments: AT LCL TP LQ LG. Analyzed the data: AT LCL. Wrote the paper: AT LCL BSP. Provided critical review of the manuscript: AM PL PK. Provided assistance in Immunohistochemical staining: ELW SS KC TKDG.