About the Authors

Leonid Gitlin

Contributed equally to this work with: Leonid Gitlin, Loralyn Benoit

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Loralyn Benoit

Contributed equally to this work with: Leonid Gitlin, Loralyn Benoit

Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Christina Song

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Marina Cella

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Susan Gilfillan

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Michael J. Holtzman

Affiliations Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Marco Colonna

mcolonna@wustl.edu

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: M. Holtzman, M. Colonna. Performed the experiments: L. Benoit, C. Song, M. Cella. Analyzed the data: L. Gitlin, L. Benoit, M. Holtzman. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: L. Gitlin, M. Cella, S. Gilfillan. Wrote the paper: L. Gitlin, L. Benoit.