About the Authors

Dillon Hawley

Affiliation Depratement of Comprehensive Care, Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jian Ding

Affiliation Immunology Research, Biogen, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Suharika Thotakura

Affiliation Depratement of Comprehensive Care, Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Scott Haskett

Affiliation Immunology Research, Biogen, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hema Aluri

Affiliation Depratement of Comprehensive Care, Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Claire Kublin

Affiliation Depratement of Comprehensive Care, Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Audrey Michel

Affiliation Depratement of Comprehensive Care, Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lisa Clapisson

Affiliation Depratement of Comprehensive Care, Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael Mingueneau

Affiliation Immunology Research, Biogen, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Driss Zoukhri

driss.zoukhri@tufts.edu

Affiliations Depratement of Comprehensive Care, Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The studies were funded in part, by Biogen and 3 of the co-authors (J.D., S.H., and M.M.) were/are employed at Biogen. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section. This commercial affiliation does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MM DZ. Data curation: DH JD SH. Formal analysis: DH JD SH. Funding acquisition: DZ. Investigation: DH JD ST SH HA CK AM LC. Methodology: MM DZ. Project administration: MM DZ. Resources: MM DZ. Supervision: MM DZ. Validation: MM DZ. Visualization: DH SH MM DZ. Writing – original draft: DH DZ. Writing – review & editing: DH MM DZ.