About the Authors

Brandon L. Garcia

Contributed equally to this work with: Brandon L. Garcia, Hui Zhi

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America, Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Hui Zhi

Contributed equally to this work with: Brandon L. Garcia, Hui Zhi

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Bryan, Texas, United States of America

Beau Wager

Current address: Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Bryan, Texas, United States of America

Magnus Höök

Affiliations Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Bryan, Texas, United States of America

Jon T. Skare

jskare@medicine.tamhsc.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Bryan, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BLG HZ BW MH JTS. Performed the experiments: BLG HZ BW. Analyzed the data: BLG HZ BW MH JTS. Wrote the paper: BLG HZ MH JTS.