About the Authors

Huanle Luo

Contributed equally to this work with: Huanle Luo, Guangyu Li

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Guangyu Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Huanle Luo, Guangyu Li

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Binbin Wang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Bing Tian

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Sealy Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Junling Gao

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Jing Zou

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Shuizhen Shi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Shuang Zhu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Bi-Hung Peng

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Awadalkareem Adam

Roles Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Ariza Martinez

Roles Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Kimberly Hein

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Evandro R. Winkelmann

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Yoseph Mahmoud

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Xiaofei Zhou

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Immunology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Chao Shan

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Shannan Rossi

Roles Resources

Affiliations Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Institute for Human Infections & Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Scott Weaver

Roles Resources

Affiliations Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Institute for Human Infections & Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Sealy Institute for Vaccine Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Alan D. T. Barrett

Roles Resources

Affiliations Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Institute for Human Infections & Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Sealy Institute for Vaccine Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Shao-Cong Sun

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Immunology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Wenbo Zhang

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Institute for Human Infections & Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Pei-Yong Shi

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Institute for Human Infections & Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Sealy Institute for Vaccine Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Ping Wu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Institute for Human Infections & Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Tian Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ti1wang@utmb.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Institute for Human Infections & Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Sealy Institute for Vaccine Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare no competing financial interests.