About the Authors

Lauren Folgosa Cooley

Affiliations Center for Clinical and Translational Research, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Rebecca K. Martin

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Hannah B. Zellner

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Anne-Marie Irani

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Cora Uram-Tuculescu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Division of Anatomic Pathology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Mohey Eldin El Shikh

‡ These authors are joint senior authors this work.

Affiliation Experimental Medicine and Rheumatology, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Daniel H. Conrad

dconrad@vcu.edu

‡ These authors are joint senior authors this work.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LFC MEES DHC. Performed the experiments: LFC RKM HBZ. Analyzed the data: LFC RKM MEES DHC CUT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MEES DHC. Wrote the paper: LFC MEES DHC. Edited manuscript: LFC RKM HBZ AMI MEES DHC CUT.