About the Authors

Thamotharampillai Dileepan

Contributed equally to this work with: Thamotharampillai Dileepan, Jonathan L. Linehan

dile0003@umn.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Jonathan L. Linehan

Contributed equally to this work with: Thamotharampillai Dileepan, Jonathan L. Linehan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology-Center for Immunology, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

James J. Moon

Affiliation The Center for Immunology & Inflammatory Diseases, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Marion Pepper

Affiliation Department of Microbiology-Center for Immunology, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Marc K. Jenkins

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology-Center for Immunology, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Patrick P. Cleary

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TD JLL. Performed the experiments: TD JLL JJM MP. Analyzed the data: TD JLL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JJM MKJ PPC. Wrote the paper: TD JLL MKJ PPC.