About the Authors

Ruth J. Napier

Contributed equally to this work with: Ruth J. Napier, Brian A. Norris

Affiliation Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Graduate Program, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Brian A. Norris

Contributed equally to this work with: Ruth J. Napier, Brian A. Norris

Affiliation Immunology and Molecular Pathogenesis Graduate Program, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Alyson Swimm

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Cynthia R. Giver

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Wayne A. C. Harris

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Julie Laval

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Center for Cystic Fibrosis Research, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier (IGMM), CNRS UMR5535, Université Montpellier, Montpellier, France

Brooke A. Napier

Affiliation Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Graduate Program, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Gopi Patel

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Ryan Crump

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Zhenghong Peng

Affiliation MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, United States of America

William Bornmann

Affiliation MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Bali Pulendran

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

R. Mark Buller

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

David S. Weiss

Affiliations Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Rabindra Tirouvanziam

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Center for Cystic Fibrosis Research, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Edmund K. Waller

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Daniel Kalman

dkalman@emory.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

Some of the patented technology relating to some discoveries described in this paper has been licensed by Emory University to a company called Inhibikase Therapeutics, and DK has an equity interest in that company. The company had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RJN BANo AS RT RMB DSW CRG EKW DK. Performed the experiments: RJN BANo BANa JL CRG WACH AS GP RC ZP WB DK. Analyzed the data: RJN BANo BANa AS JL RT RMB CRG BP DSW EKW DK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZP WB. Wrote the paper: RJN BANo AS DK.