About the Authors

Fernanda Gimenez

Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee, 1414 Cumberland Avenue, Knoxville, TN, 37996, United States of America

Sachin Mulik

Contributed equally to this work with: Sachin Mulik, Tamara Veiga-Parga

Affiliations Department of Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee, 1414 Cumberland Avenue, Knoxville, TN, 37996, United States of America, Immune Disease Institute and Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Tamara Veiga-Parga

Contributed equally to this work with: Sachin Mulik, Tamara Veiga-Parga

Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee, 1414 Cumberland Avenue, Knoxville, TN, 37996, United States of America

Siddheshvar Bhela

Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee, 1414 Cumberland Avenue, Knoxville, TN, 37996, United States of America

Barry T. Rouse

btr@utk.edu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee, 1414 Cumberland Avenue, Knoxville, TN, 37996, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FG BTR. Performed the experiments: FG SM TVP SB. Analyzed the data: FG BTR. Wrote the paper: FG BTR.