About the Authors

Rui Bao

Affiliation Laboratory of Cell Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

April Fordyce

Affiliation Enteric Diseases Department, Infectious Diseases Directorate, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Yu-Xing Chen

Affiliation Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, People's Republic of China

Annette McVeigh

Affiliation Enteric Diseases Department, Infectious Diseases Directorate, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Stephen J. Savarino

stephen.savarino@med.navy.mil (SJS); xiad@mail.nih.gov (DX)

Affiliations Enteric Diseases Department, Infectious Diseases Directorate, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Di Xia

stephen.savarino@med.navy.mil (SJS); xiad@mail.nih.gov (DX)

Affiliation Laboratory of Cell Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RB YXC SJS DX. Performed the experiments: RB AF AM. Analyzed the data: RB AF SJS DX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RB AM. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: RB SJS DX.