About the Authors

Fatema Z. Chowdhury

Affiliation Department of Immunology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Leonardo D. Estrada

Affiliation Department of Immunology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Sean Murray

Affiliation Department of Immunology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

James Forman

Affiliation Department of Immunology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

J. David Farrar

David.Farrar@UTSouthwestern.edu.

Affiliations Department of Immunology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FZC JF JDF. Performed the experiments: FZC LE SM. Analyzed the data: FZC LE JDF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JF JDF. Wrote the paper: FZC JDF.