About the Authors

Deborah Frenkel

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Fengqiu Zhang

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Patrick Guirnalda

Current Address: SANOFI, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Carole Haynes

Affiliations Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America, Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Viki Bockstal

Affiliations Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America, Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Magdalena Radwanska

Affiliation Ghent University Global Campus, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, South Korea

Stefan Magez

Affiliations Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America, Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, Department of Structural Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Samuel J. Black

sblack@vasci.umass.edu

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DF SJB. Performed the experiments: DF PG FZ CH VB. Analyzed the data: DF PG FZ CH VB MR SM SJB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MR SM SJB. Wrote the paper: DF SJB.