About the Authors

Stephen Wood

Affiliation Department of Immunology/Microbiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Vijayakumar Jayaraman

Affiliation Department of Immunology/Microbiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Erica J. Huelsmann

Affiliations Department of Immunology/Microbiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Rush University Cancer Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Developmental Center for AIDS Research, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Brian Bonish

Affiliations Department of Immunology/Microbiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Derick Burgad

Affiliation Department of Immunology/Microbiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Gayathri Sivaramakrishnan

Affiliation Department of Immunology/Microbiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Shanshan Qin

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Luisa A. DiPietro

Affiliation Center for Wound Healing and Tissue Regeneration, College of Dentistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Andrew Zloza

Affiliations Department of Immunology/Microbiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Rush University Cancer Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Developmental Center for AIDS Research, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Chunxiang Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Sasha H. Shafikhani

Sasha_Shafikhani@rush.edu

Affiliations Department of Immunology/Microbiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Rush University Cancer Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SHS LD AZ. Performed the experiments: SW VJ EJH DB GS BB SQ. Analyzed the data: SW VJ EJH DB GS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BB LD AZ CZ SHS. Wrote the paper: SHS.