About the Authors

Yuanjie Liu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Hui Nie

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Richeng Mao

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Bidisha Mitra

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Dawei Cai

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Ran Yan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Ju-Tao Guo

Affiliation Baruch S. Blumberg Institute, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Timothy M. Block

Affiliation Baruch S. Blumberg Institute, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nadir Mechti

Affiliation CNRS, UMR5235, DIMNP, University of Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France

Haitao Guo

haitguo@iupui.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YL HN RM HG. Data curation: YL HN RM BM DC HG. Formal analysis: YL HN RM BM DC HG. Funding acquisition: HG. Investigation: YL HN RM BM DC RY. Methodology: YL HN RM BM DC RY HG. Project administration: HG. Resources: JTG TMB NM HG. Supervision: HG. Validation: YL HN RM BM DC. Visualization: YL HN RM BM HG. Writing – original draft: YL HN HG. Writing – review & editing: YL JTG TMB NM HG.