About the Authors

Bassem Al-Sady

bassem.al-sady@ucsf.edu (BA-S); hitenmadhani@gmail.com (HDM)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, the GW Hooper Foundation, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States of America

Rachel A. Greenstein

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, the GW Hooper Foundation, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States of America, TETRAD graduate program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States of America

Hana J. El-Samad

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States of America

Sigurd Braun

Affiliation Department of Physiological Chemistry, Biomedical Center, Ludwigs-Maximilians-University of Munich, 82152 Martinsried, Germany

Hiten D. Madhani

bassem.al-sady@ucsf.edu (BA-S); hitenmadhani@gmail.com (HDM)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BA-S RAG HJE-S HDM SB. Performed the experiments: BA-S RAG. Analyzed the data: BA-S HJE-S. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BA-S HJE-S SB. Wrote the paper: BA-S SB HDM.