About the Authors

Jie Sun

Affiliation The Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Amber Cardani

Affiliation The Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Ashish K. Sharma

Affiliation Department of Surgery, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Victor E. Laubach

Affiliation Department of Surgery, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Robert S. Jack

Affiliation Department of Immunology, University of Greifswald, Germany

Werner Müller

Affiliation Bill Ford Chair of Cellular Immunology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Thomas J. Braciale

tjb2r@virginia.edu

Affiliations The Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Pathology, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JS TJB. Performed the experiments: JS AC AKS. Analyzed the data: JS VEL TJB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RSJ WM. Wrote the paper: JS TJB.