About the Authors

Guillermo I. Perez Perez

perezg02@med.nyu.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America

Zhan Gao

Affiliation Department of Medicine, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America

Roland Jourdain

Affiliation L’Oreal Research and Innovation, Aulnay-sous-Bois, France

Julia Ramirez

Affiliation Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States of America

Francesca Gany

Affiliation Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States of America

Cecile Clavaud

Affiliation L’Oreal Research and Innovation, Aulnay-sous-Bois, France

Julien Demaude

Current address: L’Oreal Research and innovation, Aulnay-sous-Bois, France

Affiliation L’Oreal Research and Innovation, Clark, NJ, United States of America

Lionel Breton

Contributed equally to this work with: Lionel Breton, Martin J. Blaser

Affiliation L’Oreal Research and Innovation, Aulnay-sous-Bois, France

Martin J. Blaser

Contributed equally to this work with: Lionel Breton, Martin J. Blaser

Affiliations Department of Medicine, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America, New York Harbor Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America

Competing Interests

The financial support from L’Oreal does not alter the authors’ adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials and there are no restrictions on sharing of data and/or materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GIPP ZG RJ CC JD LB MJB. Performed the experiments: GIPP ZG JR FG CC. Analyzed the data: GIPP ZG CC LB MJB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GIPP ZG JR FG CC. Wrote the paper: GIPP ZG RJ CC JD LB MJB.