About the Authors

Kristy J. Szretter

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United Stated of America

Brian P. Daniels

Affiliation Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United Stated of America

Hyelim Cho

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United Stated of America

Maria D. Gainey

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United Stated of America

Wayne M. Yokoyama

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United Stated of America, Department of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United Stated of America

Michael Gale Jr.

Affiliation Department of Immunology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Herbert W. Virgin

Affiliations Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United Stated of America, Department of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United Stated of America

Robyn S. Klein

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United Stated of America, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United Stated of America, Department of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United Stated of America

Ganes C. Sen

Affiliation Cleveland Clinic, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Michael S. Diamond

diamond@borcim.wustl.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United Stated of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United Stated of America, Department of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United Stated of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KJS BPD RSK MG MSD. Performed the experiments: KJS BPD HC. Analyzed the data: KJS MG RSK MSD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KJS HC BPD MDG WMY MG HWV RSK GCS MSD. Wrote the paper: KJS MG HWV RSK GCS MSD.