About the Authors

Vannakambadi K. Ganesh

Contributed equally to this work with: Vannakambadi K. Ganesh, Jose J. Rivera

Affiliation Center for Extracellular Matrix Biology, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A & M University Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jose J. Rivera

Contributed equally to this work with: Vannakambadi K. Ganesh, Jose J. Rivera

Current address: Department of Infectious Diseases and Employee Health, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Center for Extracellular Matrix Biology, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A & M University Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Emanuel Smeds

Affiliation Center for Extracellular Matrix Biology, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A & M University Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ya-Ping Ko

Affiliation Center for Extracellular Matrix Biology, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A & M University Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

M. Gabriela Bowden

Affiliation Center for Extracellular Matrix Biology, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A & M University Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Elisabeth R. Wann

Affiliation Center for Extracellular Matrix Biology, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A & M University Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Shivasankarappa Gurusiddappa

Current address: Genomics and Proteomics Core Laboratory, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Center for Extracellular Matrix Biology, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A & M University Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

J. Ross Fitzgerald

Affiliation Centre for Infectious Diseases, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Magnus Höök

mhook@ibt.tamhsc.edu

Affiliation Center for Extracellular Matrix Biology, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A & M University Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

A patent (pending) application has been filed based on some results in the manuscript.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VKG JJR ES YPK MGB ERW JRF MH. Performed the experiments: VKG JJR ES YPK ERW SG. Analyzed the data: VKG JJR ES YPK ERW MH. Wrote the paper: VKG JJR ES YPK MGB JRF MH.