About the Authors

Michele Chu

Contributed equally to this work with: Michele Chu, Michael J. G. Mallozzi

Affiliation School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Michael J. G. Mallozzi

Contributed equally to this work with: Michele Chu, Michael J. G. Mallozzi

Affiliation School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Bryan P. Roxas

Affiliation School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Lisa Bertolo

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Mario A. Monteiro

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Al Agellon

Affiliation School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

V. K. Viswanathan

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Immunobiology, Bio5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Gayatri Vedantam

gayatri@email.arizona.edu

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Immunobiology, Bio5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Southern Arizona VA Healthcare System, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MC MJGM VKV GV. Formal analysis: MC MJGM BPR VKV GV. Funding acquisition: GV. Investigation: MC MJGM AA BPR. Methodology: MC MJGM BPR AA. Project administration: GV. Resources: LB MAM GV. Supervision: VKV GV. Validation: MC MJGM BPR. Visualization: MC GV. Writing – original draft: MC VKV GV. Writing – review & editing: MC MJGM VKV GV.