About the Authors

Elvin J. Lauron

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Liping Yang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jabari I. Elliott

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Maria D. Gainey

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biology, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, United States of America

Daved H. Fremont

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Wayne M. Yokoyama

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

yokoyama@wustl.edu

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.