About the Authors

Mohammed S. Aiyegbo

Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammed S. Aiyegbo, Gopal Sapparapu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Gopal Sapparapu

Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammed S. Aiyegbo, Gopal Sapparapu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, The Vanderbilt Vaccine Center of Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Benjamin W. Spiller

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Ilyas M. Eli

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Dewight R. Williams

Current address: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Robert Kim

Affiliation Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

David E. Lee

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Tong Liu

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Sheng Li

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Virgil L. Woods Jr

† Deceased.

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

David P. Nannemann

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Jens Meiler

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Phoebe L. Stewart

Current address: Department of Pharmacology and Cleveland Center for Membrane and Structural Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

James E. Crowe Jr

james.crowe@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, The Vanderbilt Vaccine Center of Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSA GS BWS DRW TL VLW JM PLS JEC. Performed the experiments: MSA GS BWS IME DRW RK TL SL DPN. Analyzed the data: MSA GS BWS DRW RK DEL TL VLW DPN JM PLS JEC. Wrote the paper: MSA GS DPN JEC.