About the Authors

Justin M. Richner

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Grzegorz B. Gmyrek

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jennifer Govero

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Yizheng Tu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Gerritje J. W. van der Windt

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Talibah U. Metcalf

Affiliation Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute of Florida, Port St. Lucie, Florida, United States of America

Elias K. Haddad

Affiliation Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute of Florida, Port St. Lucie, Florida, United States of America

Johannes Textor

Affiliation Department of Theoretical Biology & Bioinformatics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands

Mark J. Miller

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Michael S. Diamond

diamond@borcim.wustl.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMR GBG GJWvdW TUM EKM MJM MSD. Performed the experiments: JMR GBG JG YT GJWvdW TUM MJM. Analyzed the data: JMR GBG GJWvdW EKH JT MJM MSD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TUM EKH JT. Wrote the paper: JMM GBG YT GJWvdW EKH JT MJM MSD.