About the Authors

Mark Geoffrey Harding

Affiliation The Calvin, Phoebe, and Joan Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Kunyan Zhang

Affiliations The Calvin, Phoebe, and Joan Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Department of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

John Conly

Affiliations The Calvin, Phoebe, and Joan Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Department of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Paul Kubes

pkubes@ucalgary.ca

Affiliations The Calvin, Phoebe, and Joan Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Department of Critical Care, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MGH KZ JC PK. Performed the experiments: MGH. Analyzed the data: MGH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KZ JC PK. Wrote the paper: MGH PK.