About the Authors

Yao E. Wang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Arnold Park

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Michael Lake

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Mickey Pentecost

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Betsabe Torres

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Tatyana E. Yun

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Mike C. Wolf

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Michael R. Holbrook

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Integrated Research Facility, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Alexander N. Freiberg

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander N. Freiberg, Benhur Lee

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Benhur Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander N. Freiberg, Benhur Lee

bleebhl@ucla.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, UCLA AIDS Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YEW MRH ANF BL. Performed the experiments: YEW AP MP BT TEY MCW ANF. Analyzed the data: YEW AP ML MCW MRH ANF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YEW. Wrote the paper: YEW.