About the Authors

Rosalie Moody

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Ying Zhu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Yufei Huang

Yufei.Huang@utsa.edu (YH); shoujiag@usc.edu (SJG)

Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Xiaodong Cui

Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Tiffany Jones

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Roble Bedolla

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Xiufen Lei

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Zhiqiang Bai

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Shou-Jiang Gao

Yufei.Huang@utsa.edu (YH); shoujiag@usc.edu (SJG)

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YH SJG. Performed the experiments: RM YZ YH XC TJ RB XL ZB SJG. Analyzed the data: RM YZ YH XC SJG. Wrote the paper: RM YZ YH SJG.