About the Authors

Yao Liu

Affiliation Purdue Institute for Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Diseases and Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America

Wenhan Zhu

Current address: Department of Microbiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America

Affiliation Purdue Institute for Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Diseases and Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America

Yunhao Tan

Current address: Division of Gastroenterology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Affiliation Purdue Institute for Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Diseases and Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America

Ernesto S. Nakayasu

Affiliation Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States of America

Christopher J. Staiger

Affiliation Purdue Institute for Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Diseases and Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America

Zhao-Qing Luo

luoz@purdue.edu

Affiliation Purdue Institute for Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Diseases and Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YL WZ YT ZQL. Formal analysis: YL. Funding acquisition: ZQL. Investigation: YL WZ YT ESN. Methodology: YL WZ ESN. Project administration: YL ZQL. Resources: CJS. Supervision: ZQL. Visualization: YL ZQL. Writing – original draft: YL ZQL. Writing – review & editing: YL WZ YT ESN CJS ZQL.