About the Authors

Casandra W. Philipson

Affiliations Center for Modeling Immunity to Enteric Pathogens, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America, Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

Josep Bassaganya-Riera

Affiliations Center for Modeling Immunity to Enteric Pathogens, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America, Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

Monica Viladomiu

Affiliations Center for Modeling Immunity to Enteric Pathogens, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America, Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

Barbara Kronsteiner

Affiliations Center for Modeling Immunity to Enteric Pathogens, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America, Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

Vida Abedi

Affiliations Center for Modeling Immunity to Enteric Pathogens, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America, Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

Stefan Hoops

Affiliations Center for Modeling Immunity to Enteric Pathogens, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America, Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

Pawel Michalak

Affiliation Center for Modeling Immunity to Enteric Pathogens, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

Lin Kang

Affiliation Center for Modeling Immunity to Enteric Pathogens, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

Stephen E. Girardin

Affiliation Laboratory of Medicine & Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Raquel Hontecillas

rmagarzo@vt.edu

Affiliations Center for Modeling Immunity to Enteric Pathogens, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America, Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CWP JBR RH. Performed the experiments: CWP MV BK. Analyzed the data: CWP JBR RH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CWP JBR RH VA SH PM SG LK. Wrote the paper: CWP JBR RH.