About the Authors

Rachel S. Hulme

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Adrian Higginbottom

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, University of Sheffield Medical School, Sheffield, United Kingdom

John Palmer

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Lynda J. Partridge

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Peter N. Monk

p.monk@shef.ac.uk

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Infection and Immunity, University of Sheffield Medical School, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PNM LJP. Performed the experiments: RSH AH JP. Analyzed the data: PNM LJP. Wrote the paper: PNM LJP.