About the Authors

Shilpi Verma

Contributed equally to this work with: Shilpi Verma, Andrea Loewendorf

Affiliation Division of Immune Regulation, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Andrea Loewendorf

Contributed equally to this work with: Shilpi Verma, Andrea Loewendorf

Current address: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Immune Regulation, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Qiao Wang

Affiliation Division of Immune Regulation, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Bryan McDonald

Affiliation Division of Immune Regulation, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Alec Redwood

Affiliation Microbiology and Immunology, School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

Chris A. Benedict

benedict@liai.org

Affiliation Division of Immune Regulation, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SV AL CAB. Performed the experiments: SV AL. Analyzed the data: SV AL CAB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AR. Wrote the paper: SV CAB. Technical assistance: QW BM.