About the Authors

Shyamasree De Majumdar

Affiliations Centre for Infection and Immunity, Belfast, United Kingdom, Division of Pathway and Infection Medicine, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Jing Yu

Affiliation Centre for Infection and Immunity, Belfast, United Kingdom

Maria Fookes

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Sean P. McAteer

Affiliation Division of Immunity and Infection, The Roslin Institute and R(D)SVS, The University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Midlothian, United Kingdom

Enrique Llobet

Affiliation Laboratory Microbial Pathogenesis, Fundació d’Investigació Sanitària de les Illes Balears (FISIB) Recinto Hospital Joan March, Bunyola, Spain

Sarah Finn

Affiliation UCD Centre for Molecular Innovation and Drug Discovery, School of Public Health, Physiotherapy & Population Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Shaun Spence

Affiliation Centre for Infection and Immunity, Belfast, United Kingdom

Avril Monaghan

Affiliation Centre for Infection and Immunity, Belfast, United Kingdom

Adrien Kissenpfennig

Affiliation Centre for Infection and Immunity, Belfast, United Kingdom

Rebecca J. Ingram

Affiliation Centre for Infection and Immunity, Belfast, United Kingdom

José Bengoechea

Affiliations Centre for Infection and Immunity, Belfast, United Kingdom, Laboratory Microbial Pathogenesis, Fundació d’Investigació Sanitària de les Illes Balears (FISIB) Recinto Hospital Joan March, Bunyola, Spain

David L. Gally

Affiliation Division of Immunity and Infection, The Roslin Institute and R(D)SVS, The University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Midlothian, United Kingdom

Séamus Fanning

Affiliation UCD Centre for Molecular Innovation and Drug Discovery, School of Public Health, Physiotherapy & Population Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Joseph S. Elborn

Affiliation Centre for Infection and Immunity, Belfast, United Kingdom

Thamarai Schneiders

thamarai.schneiders@ed.ac.uk

Affiliations Centre for Infection and Immunity, Belfast, United Kingdom, Division of Pathway and Infection Medicine, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SDM JY TS. Performed the experiments: SDM JY MF SPM EL SFi AM. Analyzed the data: SDM JY MF SFi RJI JB TS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SDM JY SPM MF EL SFi SS AM AK RJI JB DLG SFa JSE TS. Wrote the paper: SDM JY MF TS.