About the Authors

Kieran Seay

Contributed equally to this work with: Kieran Seay, Xiaohua Qi

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Xiaohua Qi

Contributed equally to this work with: Kieran Seay, Xiaohua Qi

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Jian Hua Zheng

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Cong Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Ken Chen

Affiliation Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Monica Dutta

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Kathryn Deneroff

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Christina Ochsenbauer

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

John C. Kappes

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Research Service, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Dan R. Littman

Affiliations Molecular Pathogenesis Program, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Harris Goldstein

harris.goldstein@einstein.yu.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HG KS. Performed the experiments: KS XQ MD KD CZ. Analyzed the data: HG KS XQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JHZ KC CZ CO JK DL. Wrote the paper: HG KS CO JK. Provided experimental and conceptual advice: DL.