About the Authors

Dee N. Dao

Affiliations Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Kari Sweeney

Affiliations Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Tsungda Hsu

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Sudagar S. Gurcha

Affiliation School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, United Kingdom

Ivan P. Nascimento

Affiliation Instituto Butantan, Biotecnologia Molecular IV, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Dan Roshevsky

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Gurdyal S. Besra

Affiliation School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, United Kingdom

John Chan

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Steven A. Porcelli

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

William R. Jacobs Jr.

jacobsw@hhmi.org

Affiliations Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DD WJ. Performed the experiments: DD KS TH SG IN DR. Analyzed the data: DD KS GB JC SP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG GB JC SP. Wrote the paper with contributions from co-authors: DD WJ.