About the Authors

Niki M. Moutsopoulos

nmoutsop@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Oral Immunity and Inflammation Unit, Oral and Pharyngeal Cancer Branch, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Natalia I. Chalmers

Contributed equally to this work with: Natalia I. Chalmers, Jennifer J. Barb

Affiliation Clinical Research Core, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jennifer J. Barb

Contributed equally to this work with: Natalia I. Chalmers, Jennifer J. Barb

Affiliation Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Loreto Abusleme

Affiliation Oral Immunity and Inflammation Unit, Oral and Pharyngeal Cancer Branch, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Teresa Greenwell-Wild

Affiliation Oral Immunity and Inflammation Unit, Oral and Pharyngeal Cancer Branch, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Nicolas Dutzan

Affiliation Oral Immunity and Inflammation Unit, Oral and Pharyngeal Cancer Branch, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Bruce J. Paster

Affiliations The Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Peter J. Munson

Affiliation Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Daniel H. Fine

Affiliation Rutgers School of Dental Medicine, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Gulbu Uzel

Affiliation National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Steven M. Holland

Affiliation National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, 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: NMM SMH. Performed the experiments: LA TGW BJP ND NMM. Analyzed the data: NIC JJB PJM DHF NMM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BJP DHF GU. Wrote the paper: NMM SMH.