About the Authors

Costanza Casiraghi

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Iryna Shanina

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Sehyun Cho

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Michael L. Freeman

Affiliation Trudeau Institute, Saranac Lake, New York, United States of America

Marcia A. Blackman

Affiliation Trudeau Institute, Saranac Lake, New York, United States of America

Marc S. Horwitz

mhorwitz@mail.ubc.ca

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CC MSH. Performed the experiments: CC IS SC. Analyzed the data: CC MSH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CC IS MLF MAB MSH. Wrote the paper: CC MSH. Advised and edited manuscript: MLF MAB.