About the Authors

Susu Duan

Affiliation Department of Immunology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Victoria A. Meliopoulos

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Jennifer L. McClaren

Affiliation Department of Immunology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Xi-Zhi J. Guo

Affiliation Department of Immunology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Catherine J. Sanders

Affiliation Department of Immunology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Heather S. Smallwood

Affiliation Department of Immunology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Richard J. Webby

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Stacey L. Schultz-Cherry

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Peter C. Doherty

Affiliation Department of Immunology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Paul G. Thomas

Paul.Thomas@stjude.org

Affiliation Department of Immunology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SD PCD PGT. Performed the experiments: SD VAM JLM XZJG CJS HSS. Analyzed the data: SD JLM PGT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RJW SLSC. Wrote the paper: SD PCD PGT.