About the Authors

Morgan A. Jones

Contributed equally to this work with: Morgan A. Jones, Sean DeWolf, Vimvara Vacharathit

Current address: Physician Scientist Training Program, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Health System, 1500 E. Medical Center Dr., Ann Arbor, MI. 48109, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology, Villanova University, 800 E. Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, PA, 19085, United States of America

Sean DeWolf

Contributed equally to this work with: Morgan A. Jones, Sean DeWolf, Vimvara Vacharathit

Current address: MD Program, University of California San Diego, 200 W. Arbor Dr., San Diego, CA, 92103, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology, Villanova University, 800 E. Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, PA, 19085, United States of America

Vimvara Vacharathit

Contributed equally to this work with: Morgan A. Jones, Sean DeWolf, Vimvara Vacharathit

Current address: Ph.D. program (Immunology), John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology, Villanova University, 800 E. Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, PA, 19085, United States of America

Michelle Yim

Current address: College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Western University of Health Sciences, 309 E. 2nd St., Pomona, CA, 91766, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology, Villanova University, 800 E. Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, PA, 19085, United States of America

Stacey Spencer

Current address: Janssen R&D, Johnson & Johnson, PA 920 Route 202, Raritan, NJ, 08869, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology, Villanova University, 800 E. Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, PA, 19085, United States of America

Anil K. Bamezai

anil.bamezai@villanova.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Villanova University, 800 E. Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, PA, 19085, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AKB. Performed the experiments: MAJ SDW VV MY SS. Analyzed the data: MAJ SDW VV MY SS AKB. Wrote the paper: MAJ SDW VV MY SS AKB.