About the Authors

Akanksha

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Gray School of Medical Sciences, Gray Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

Rania Bouzeyen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Experimental Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Avia Watson

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Gray School of Medical Sciences, Gray Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

Gil Wiseglass

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry & Biophysics, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

Nyaradzai Sithole

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Division of Experimental Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Lilach Abramovitz

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Gray School of Medical Sciences, Gray Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

Noam Ben-Shalom

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Gray School of Medical Sciences, Gray Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

Rotem Rubinstein

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry & Biophysics, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

Babak Javid

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Division of Experimental Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Natalia T. Freund

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

nfreund@tauex.tau.ac.il

Affiliation Gray School of Medical Sciences, Gray Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Akanksha, AW, LA, RR and NTF are co-inventors on a patent application, “BI-SPECIFIC ANTI-PSTS1 ANTIBODIES PROVIDE ENHANCED PROTECTION FROM MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS”.