About the Authors

Dong-Min Shin

Contributed equally to this work with: Dong-Min Shin, Bo-Young Jeon

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea, Infection Signaling Network Research Center, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea

Bo-Young Jeon

Contributed equally to this work with: Dong-Min Shin, Bo-Young Jeon

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Brain Korea 21 Project for Medical Sciences, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Hye-Mi Lee

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea, Infection Signaling Network Research Center, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea

Hyo Sun Jin

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea, Infection Signaling Network Research Center, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea

Jae-Min Yuk

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea, Infection Signaling Network Research Center, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea

Chang-Hwa Song

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea

Sang-Hee Lee

Affiliations Infection Signaling Network Research Center, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea, Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea

Zee-Won Lee

Affiliation Division of Life Science, Korea Basic Science Institute, Daejeon, Korea

Sang-Nae Cho

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Brain Korea 21 Project for Medical Sciences, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Jin-Man Kim

Affiliations Infection Signaling Network Research Center, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea, Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea

Richard L. Friedman

Affiliation Department of Immunobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Eun-Kyeong Jo

hayoungj@cnu.ac.kr

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea, Infection Signaling Network Research Center, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DMS BYJ CHS JMK RLF EKJ. Performed the experiments: DMS BYJ HML HSJ JMY CHS SHL JMK EKJ. Analyzed the data: DMS BYJ HML HSJ JMY CHS SHL ZWL JMK RLF EKJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BYJ CHS ZWL SNC JMK RLF EKJ. Wrote the paper: DMS BYJ RLF EKJ.