About the Authors

Kan Lin

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America, Program in Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis, Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Kathryn M. O'Brien

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Carolina Trujillo

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Ruojun Wang

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America, Program in Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis, Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Joshua B. Wallach

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Dirk Schnappinger

dis2003@med.cornell.edu (DS); sae2004@med.cornell.edu (SE)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Sabine Ehrt

dis2003@med.cornell.edu (DS); sae2004@med.cornell.edu (SE)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America, Program in Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis, Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KL KMO CT RW JBW DS SE. Performed the experiments: KL KMO CT RW JBW. Analyzed the data: KL KMO CT RW JBW DS SE. Wrote the paper: KL DS SE.