About the Authors

Vasile Laza-Stanca

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, Centre for Respiratory Infection, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Simon D. Message

Affiliations Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, Centre for Respiratory Infection, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

Michael R. Edwards

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, Centre for Respiratory Infection, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Hayley L. Parker

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, Centre for Respiratory Infection, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Mihnea T. Zdrenghea

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, Centre for Respiratory Infection, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Tatiana Kebadze

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, Centre for Respiratory Infection, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Onn M. Kon

Affiliation Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

Patrick Mallia

Affiliations Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, Centre for Respiratory Infection, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

Luminita A. Stanciu

Contributed equally to this work with: Luminita A. Stanciu, Sebastian L. Johnston

l.stanciu@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, Centre for Respiratory Infection, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Sebastian L. Johnston

Contributed equally to this work with: Luminita A. Stanciu, Sebastian L. Johnston

Affiliations Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, Centre for Respiratory Infection, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VL-S SDM MRE MTZ OMK PM LAS SLJ. Performed the experiments: VL-S SDM HLP MTZ TK PM. Analyzed the data: VL-S SDM HLP PM OMK LAS SLJ. Wrote the paper: VL-S PM LAS SLJ.