About the Authors

Siobhan Ni Choileain

Affiliations Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Centre for Inflammation Research, Centre for Multiple Sclerosis Research, Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Nathan J. Weyand

Contributed equally to this work with: Nathan J. Weyand, Christian Neumann

Affiliation BIO5 Institute and Department of Immunobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Christian Neumann

Contributed equally to this work with: Nathan J. Weyand, Christian Neumann

Current address: Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum, Berlin, Germany

Affiliations Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Centre for Inflammation Research, Centre for Multiple Sclerosis Research, Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Joelle Thomas

Affiliation Université Lyon 1, Lyon, CNRS, UMR5534, Centre de Génétique Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Villeurbanne, France

Magdalene So

Affiliation BIO5 Institute and Department of Immunobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Anne L. Astier

a.astier@ed.ac.uk

Affiliations Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Centre for Inflammation Research, Centre for Multiple Sclerosis Research, Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ALA SNC CN NJW MS. Performed the experiments: SNC CN JT NJW ALA. Analyzed the data: SNC CN ALA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NJW MS JT. Wrote the paper: ALA.