About the Authors

Hongyan An

Affiliation Inflammation and Infection Research Centre, School of Medical Sciences, Department of Pathology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia

Chai Lim

Affiliation MND and Neurodegenerative diseases Research Centre, Australian School of Advanced Medicine (ASAM), Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

Gilles J. Guillemin

Affiliation MND and Neurodegenerative diseases Research Centre, Australian School of Advanced Medicine (ASAM), Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

Ute Vollmer-Conna

Affiliation School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2050, Australia

William Rawlinson

Affiliation Department of Virology, South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Health Service, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, NSW 2032, Australia

Katherine Bryant

Affiliations Inflammation and Infection Research Centre, School of Medical Sciences, Department of Pathology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia, South Western Sydney Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2170, Australia

Nicodemus Tedla

n.tedla@unsw.edu.au

Affiliation Inflammation and Infection Research Centre, School of Medical Sciences, Department of Pathology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KB NT. Performed the experiments: HA. Analyzed the data: HA UV NT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CL GJG WR. Wrote the paper: HA NT.