About the Authors

Christine M. Coquery

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America, Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Nekeithia S. Wade

Affiliation Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

William M. Loo

Affiliation Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Jason M. Kinchen

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America, Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America, Center for Cell Clearance, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Kelly M. Cox

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America, Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Chao Jiang

Affiliation Division of Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Kenneth S. Tung

Affiliations Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Loren D. Erickson

lde9w@virginia.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America, Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CMC JMK KST LDE. Performed the experiments: CMC NSW WML KMC CJ. Analyzed the data: CMC NSW JMK KST LDE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMK. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: CMC NSW LDE.