About the Authors

Matthew D. Martin

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Immunology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Marie T. Kim

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Immunology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Qiang Shan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Ramakrishna Sompallae

Affiliation Iowa Institute of Human Genetics Bioinformatics Division, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Hai-Hui Xue

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Immunology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

John T. Harty

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Immunology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Vladimir P. Badovinac

vladimir-badovinac@uiowa.edu

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Immunology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MDM JTH VPB. Performed the experiments: MDM MTK QS. Analyzed the data: MDM HHX RS VPB. Wrote the paper: MDM HHX JTH VPB.