About the Authors

Kamalakannan Velmurugan

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Bing Chen

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Jessica L Miller

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Sharon Azogue

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Serdar Gurses

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Tsungda Hsu

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Michael Glickman

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Immunology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

William R Jacobs Jr.

Affiliations Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America , Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America , Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Steven A Porcelli

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America , Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Volker Briken

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: vbriken@umd.edu

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

KV, JM, SA, SG, and VB conceived and designed the experiments. KV, BC, JM, SA, SG, and VB performed the experiments. KV, WRJ, SAP, and VB analyzed the data. TH, MG, and WRJ contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. SAP and VB wrote the paper.