About the Authors

Carla M. Cabral

Contributed equally to this work with: Carla M. Cabral, Shraddha Tuladhar

Affiliation BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Shraddha Tuladhar

Contributed equally to this work with: Carla M. Cabral, Shraddha Tuladhar

Affiliation Department of Immunobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Hans K. Dietrich

Affiliation BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Elizabeth Nguyen

Affiliation BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Wes R. MacDonald

Affiliation Undergraduate Biology Research Program, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Tapasya Trivedi

Affiliation BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Asha Devineni

Affiliation BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Anita A. Koshy

akoshy@email.arizona.edu

Affiliations BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Immunobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AAK CMC HKD ST. Performed the experiments: CMC AD HKD EN TT ST WRM. Analyzed the data: CMC AD HKD EN TT ST AAK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WRM CMC AAK. Wrote the paper: AAK HKD ST CMC.