About the Authors

Jacob Wong

Contributed equally to this work with: Jacob Wong, Virja Mehta

Current address: Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Virja Mehta

Contributed equally to this work with: Jacob Wong, Virja Mehta

Current address: Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Anastassia Voronova

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Josée Coutu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Tammy Ryan

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Michael Shelton

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ilona S. Skerjanc

iskerjan@uottawa.ca

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Revised the manuscript: AV TR MS. Conceived and designed the experiments: JW VM AV IS JC. Performed the experiments: JW VM JC AV TR MS. Analyzed the data: JW VM JC AV MS IS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW VM JC AV TR MS. Wrote the paper: JW VM IS.