About the Authors

Anil K. Ghosh

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Martin Devenport

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Deepa Jethwaney

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dario E. Kalume

Current address: Oswaldo Cruz Foundation-Fiocruz, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Affiliation McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine and Departments of Biological Chemistry, Pathology, and Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Akhilesh Pandey

Affiliation McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine and Departments of Biological Chemistry, Pathology, and Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Vernon E. Anderson

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Ali A. Sultan

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nirbhay Kumar

nkumar@jhsph.edu (NK); mlorena@jhsph.edu (MJ-L)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena

nkumar@jhsph.edu (NK); mlorena@jhsph.edu (MJ-L)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AKG MD DEK AP VEA AAS MJL. Performed the experiments: AKG MD DEK. Analyzed the data: AKG DEK AP MJL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DJ. Wrote the paper: AKG MD DEK AP VEA NK MJL.