About the Authors

Yanyu Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanyu Wang, Sarah A. Jenkins

Affiliation Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Sarah A. Jenkins

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanyu Wang, Sarah A. Jenkins

Current address: Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, 620 John Paul Jones Circle, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States of America

Affiliation Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Chunfang Gu

Current address: Laboratory of Signal Transduction, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 101 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Affiliation Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ankita Shree

Affiliation Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Margarita Martinez-Moczygemba

Affiliations Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Jennifer Herold

Affiliation Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Marina Botto

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Rick A. Wetsel

Affiliation The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yi Xu

yxu@ibt.tamhsc.edu

Affiliations Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YW SAJ MMM YX. Performed the experiments: YW SAJ CG AS JH. Analyzed the data: YW SAJ MMM YX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MMM MB RAW YX. Wrote the paper: YW SAJ MB RAW YX.