About the Authors

Kareem Rashid Rumah

Contributed equally to this work with: Kareem Rashid Rumah, Yinghua Ma, Jennifer R. Linden

Affiliations Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City, New York, United States of America, Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York City, New York, United States of America

Yinghua Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Kareem Rashid Rumah, Yinghua Ma, Jennifer R. Linden

Affiliation Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City, New York, United States of America

Jennifer R. Linden

Contributed equally to this work with: Kareem Rashid Rumah, Yinghua Ma, Jennifer R. Linden

Affiliation Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City, New York, United States of America

Myat Lin Oo

Affiliation Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City, New York, United States of America

Josef Anrather

Affiliation Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City, New York, United States of America

Nicole Schaeren-Wiemers

Affiliation Neurobiology, Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Miguel A. Alonso

Affiliation Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, CSIC-UAM, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain

Vincent A. Fischetti

Affiliation Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York City, New York, United States of America

Mark S. McClain

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Timothy Vartanian

tiv2002@med.cornell.edu

Affiliation Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TV KRR YM JRL MLO VAF. Performed the experiments: KRR YM JRL MLO JA MSM. Analyzed the data: TV KRR YM JRL MLO MSM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NSW MAA MSM. Wrote the paper: TV.