About the Authors

Karoly Toth

Contributed equally to this work with: Karoly Toth, Sang R. Lee, Baoling Ying

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

Sang R. Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Karoly Toth, Sang R. Lee, Baoling Ying

Affiliation Department of Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

Baoling Ying

Contributed equally to this work with: Karoly Toth, Sang R. Lee, Baoling Ying

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

Jacqueline F. Spencer

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

Ann E. Tollefson

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

John E. Sagartz

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

Il-Keun Kong

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Division of Applied Life Science and Institute of Agriculture and Life Science, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Republic of Korea

Zhongde Wang

zonda.wang@usu.edu (ZW); woldws@slu.edu (WSMW)

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

William S. M. Wold

zonda.wang@usu.edu (ZW); woldws@slu.edu (WSMW)

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis 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: KT ZW WSMW. Performed the experiments: KT SRL BY JFS AET JES. Analyzed the data: KT ZW WSMW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IKK. Wrote the paper: KT ZW WSMW.