About the Authors

Charmion I. Cruickshank-Quinn

Affiliation Integrated Department of Immunology, National Jewish Health and University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Spencer Mahaffey

Affiliations Integrated Department of Immunology, National Jewish Health and University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Matthew J. Justice

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Grant Hughes

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Michael Armstrong

Affiliation Integrated Department of Immunology, National Jewish Health and University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Russell P. Bowler

Affiliation Department of Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Richard Reisdorph

Affiliations Integrated Department of Immunology, National Jewish Health and University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Irina Petrache

ReisdorphN@NJHealth.org (NR); ipetrach@iu.edu (IP)

Affiliations Departments of Medicine and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Nichole Reisdorph

ReisdorphN@NJHealth.org (NR); ipetrach@iu.edu (IP)

Affiliation Integrated Department of Immunology, National Jewish Health and University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IP NR MA RR RB. Performed the experiments: SM RR MA MJJ. Analyzed the data: CICQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IP NR RR. Wrote the paper: CICQ NR IP RB. Provided assistance in statistical analysis: GH.