About the Authors

Tina M. Sali

Affiliation Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Kara M. Pryke

Affiliation Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Jinu Abraham

Affiliation Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Andrew Liu

Affiliation Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Iris Archer

Affiliations Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Rebecca Broeckel

Affiliations Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Julia A. Staverosky

Affiliation Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Jessica L. Smith

Affiliation Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Ahmed Al-Shammari

Affiliations Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, Iraqi Centre for Cancer and Medical Genetics Research, Baghdad, Iraq

Lisi Amsler

Affiliations Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Kayla Sheridan

Affiliation Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Aaron Nilsen

Affiliation Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Daniel N. Streblow

Affiliations Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Victor R. DeFilippis

defilipp@ohsu.edu

Affiliations Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VRD AN JLS RB. Performed the experiments: TMS KMP RB JLS JA JAS AAS KS VRD IA. Analyzed the data: VRD RB JLS AN DNS JA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VRD TMS KMP DNS AL JA JLS KS AN LA. Wrote the paper: VRD JLS DNS JA.