About the Authors

Jean Guan

Contributed equally to this work with: Jean Guan, S. M. Shahjahan Miah

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and Graduate Program in Pathobiology, Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

S. M. Shahjahan Miah

Contributed equally to this work with: Jean Guan, S. M. Shahjahan Miah

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and Graduate Program in Pathobiology, Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Zachary S. Wilson

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and Graduate Program in Pathobiology, Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Timothy K. Erick

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and Graduate Program in Pathobiology, Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Cindy Banh

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and Graduate Program in Pathobiology, Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Laurent Brossay

Laurent_Brossay@Brown.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and Graduate Program in Pathobiology, Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JG SMSM ZSW TKE CB LB. Performed the experiments: JG SMSM ZSW TKE CB. Analyzed the data: JG SMSM ZSW TKE CB LB. Wrote the paper: SMSM ZSW TKE LB.