About the Authors

Myung-Shin Lee

Affiliations Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Eulji University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Tiffany Jones

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

Dae-Yong Song

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, Eulji University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Jae-Hyuk Jang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Eulji University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Jae U. Jung

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

Shou-Jiang Gao

shoujiag@usc.edu

Affiliation 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: MSL SJG. Performed the experiments: MSL TJ DYS JHJ. Analyzed the data: MSL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSL TJ JUJ SJG. Wrote the paper: MSL JUJ SJG.