About the Authors

Gaia Muallem

Affiliations Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Nephrology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sagie Wagage

Affiliations Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Yan Sun

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jonathan H. DeLong

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Alex Valenzuela

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

David A. Christian

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Gretchen Harms Pritchard

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Qun Fang

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Elizabeth L. Buza

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Deepika Jain

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

M. Merle Elloso

Affiliation Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Immunology Discovery Research, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Carolina B. López

‡ C.B.L. and C.A.H. are Joint Senior Authors

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Christopher A. Hunter

chunter@vet.upenn.edu

‡ C.B.L. and C.A.H. are Joint Senior Authors

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: CAH is a consultant for the group Surface Oncology and holds patents related to IL-27 and immune regulation. MME is employed by a commercial company, Janssen Research and Development.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: GM CBL CAH. Formal analysis: GM ELB. Funding acquisition: CAH CBL. Investigation: GM SW YS JHD AV DAC GHP QF DJ. Methodology: GM SW CAH CBL. Project administration: CAH CBL. Resources: MME. Supervision: CAH CBL. Validation: GM SW YS AV. Visualization: GM. Writing – original draft: GM. Writing – review & editing: GM DAC SW JHD CAH CBL.