About the Authors

Keith S. Bahjat

Contributed equally to this work with: Keith S. Bahjat, Nicole Meyer-Morse

keith.bahjat@providence.org (KSB); portnoy@berkeley.edu (DAP)

Affiliation Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Robert W. Franz Cancer Research Center, Providence Cancer Center, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Nicole Meyer-Morse

Contributed equally to this work with: Keith S. Bahjat, Nicole Meyer-Morse

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Edward E. Lemmens

Current address: University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Anza Therapeutics, Concord, California, United States of America

Jessica A. Shugart

Affiliation Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Robert W. Franz Cancer Research Center, Providence Cancer Center, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Thomas W. Dubensky Jr.

Current address: Immune Design Corp, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation Anza Therapeutics, Concord, California, United States of America

Dirk G. Brockstedt

Current address: Aduro Biotech, Berkeley, California, United States of America

These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Anza Therapeutics, Concord, California, United States of America

Daniel A. Portnoy

keith.bahjat@providence.org (KSB); portnoy@berkeley.edu (DAP)

These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

D.G.B. is an employee of Aduro Biotech, which actively develops L. monocytogenes-based vaccines.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KSB NMM EEL JAS TWD DGB DAP. Performed the experiments: KSB NMM EEL JAS. Analyzed the data: KSB NMM EEL JAS DAP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KSB TWD DAP. Wrote the paper: KSB NMM DGB DAP.