About the Authors

Xiangyu Yao

Affiliation Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jian Wu

Affiliation Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Meng Lin

Affiliation Center for Inflammation and Epigenetics, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Wenxiang Sun

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Xiao He

Affiliation Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Channe Gowda

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Silvia Bolland

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Carole A. Long

Affiliation Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Rongfu Wang

rwang3@tmhs.org (RW); xsu@niaid.nih.gov (XzS)

Affiliation Center for Inflammation and Epigenetics, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Xin-zhuan Su

rwang3@tmhs.org (RW); xsu@niaid.nih.gov (XzS)

Affiliation Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: XzS RW. Formal analysis: XY XzS. Funding acquisition: RW XzS. Investigation: XY JW ML WS XH. Methodology: XY JW. Project administration: XzS. Resources: CG. Supervision: SB RW XzS. Writing – original draft: XY XzS. Writing – review & editing: XY CG SB CAL RW XzS.