About the Authors

Jennifer R. Robbins

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Program in Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Defense, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Biology, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Kasia M. Skrzypczynska

Contributed equally to this work with: Kasia M. Skrzypczynska, Varvara B. Zeldovich

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Program in Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Defense, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Varvara B. Zeldovich

Contributed equally to this work with: Kasia M. Skrzypczynska, Varvara B. Zeldovich

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Program in Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Defense, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Mirhan Kapidzic

Affiliation Institute for Regeneration Medicine, Human Embryonic Stem Cell Program, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Anna I. Bakardjiev

bakardjieva@peds.ucsf.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Program in Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Defense, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JRR AIB. Performed the experiments: JRR KMS VBZ MK. Analyzed the data: JRR AIB. Wrote the paper: JRR AIB.