About the Authors

Ching Wen Tseng

George.Liu@cshs.org (GYL); dolorsas@gmail.com (CWT)

Affiliations Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and the Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Juan Carlos Biancotti

Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Carlos Biancotti, Bethany L. Berg, David Gate

Affiliation Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Bethany L. Berg

Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Carlos Biancotti, Bethany L. Berg, David Gate

Affiliations Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and the Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

David Gate

Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Carlos Biancotti, Bethany L. Berg, David Gate

Affiliations Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Stacey L. Kolar

Affiliations Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and the Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Sabrina Müller

Affiliations Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and the Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Maria D. Rodriguez

Affiliations Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and the Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Kavon Rezai-Zadeh

Current Address: Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Xuemo Fan

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

David O. Beenhouwer

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California; Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Terrence Town

‡ TT and GYL also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

George Y. Liu

George.Liu@cshs.org (GYL); dolorsas@gmail.com (CWT)

‡ TT and GYL also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and the Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CWT GYL JCB TT. Performed the experiments: CWT GYL JCB DG BLB SLK SM MDR KRZ. Analyzed the data: XF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DOB. Wrote the paper: CWT GYL.