About the Authors

Liam Fitzsimmons

Contributed equally to this work with: Liam Fitzsimmons, Lin Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America

Lin Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Liam Fitzsimmons, Lin Liu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America

Steffen Porwollik

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, CA, United States of America

Sangeeta Chakraborty

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America

Prerak Desai

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, CA, United States of America

Timothy Tapscott

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America

Calvin Henard

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America

Michael McClelland

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, CA, United States of America

Andres Vazquez-Torres

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Andres.Vazquez-Torres@ucdenver.edu

Affiliations Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America, Research Service, Veterans Affairs Eastern Colorado Health Care System, Denver, CO, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.