About the Authors

David S. Guttery

These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Centre for Genetics and Genomics, School of Biology, Queen's Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Jon K. Pittman

These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Karine Frénal

These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, Centre Medical Universitaire, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Benoit Poulin

Affiliation Centre for Genetics and Genomics, School of Biology, Queen's Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Leon R. McFarlane

Affiliation Centre for Infection and Immunity, Division of Clinical Sciences, St. George's, University of London, London, United Kingdom

Ksenija Slavic

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Prof. Egas Moniz, Lisbon, Portugal

Sally P. Wheatley

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, Queen's Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Dominique Soldati-Favre

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, Centre Medical Universitaire, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Sanjeev Krishna

Affiliation Centre for Infection and Immunity, Division of Clinical Sciences, St. George's, University of London, London, United Kingdom

Rita Tewari

rita.tewari@nottingham.ac.uk (RT); hstaines@sgul.ac.uk (HMS)

Affiliation Centre for Genetics and Genomics, School of Biology, Queen's Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Henry M. Staines

rita.tewari@nottingham.ac.uk (RT); hstaines@sgul.ac.uk (HMS)

Affiliation Centre for Infection and Immunity, Division of Clinical Sciences, St. George's, University of London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JKP DSF SK RT HMS. Performed the experiments: DSG JKP KF BP LRM KS SPW RT HMS. Analyzed the data: DSG JKP KF SPW RT HMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JKP SPW DSF SK RT HMS. Wrote the paper: DSG JKP KF DSF SK RT HMS.