About the Authors

Philip T. Liu

philip@bruinphd.com

Affiliation Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Mirjam Schenk

Affiliation Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Valencia P. Walker

Affiliation Neonatal Research Center, Division of Neonatology and Developmental Biology, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Paul W. Dempsey

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Melissa Kanchanapoomi

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Matthew Wheelwright

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Aria Vazirnia

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Xiaoran Zhang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Andreas Steinmeyer

Affiliation Medicinal Chemistry, Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Berlin, Germany

Ulrich Zügel

Affiliation Common Mechanism Research Early Projects, Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Berlin, Germany

Bruce W. Hollis

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Genhong Cheng

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Robert L. Modlin

Affiliations Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PTL MS PWD GC RM. Performed the experiments: PTL MS VPW MK MW AV XZ. Analyzed the data: PTL MS VPW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS UZ BH. Wrote the paper: PTL RM.