About the Authors

Carrie M. Rosenberger

rosenberger.carrie@gene.com (CMR); alan.aderem@cidresearch.org (AA)

Current address: Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA United States of America

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Research, Seattle, WA United States of America

Rebecca L. Podyminogin

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Research, Seattle, WA United States of America

Alan H. Diercks

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Research, Seattle, WA United States of America

Piper M. Treuting

Affiliation Department of Comparative Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Jacques J. Peschon

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Research, Seattle, WA United States of America

David Rodriguez

Current address: Novo Nordisk, Inc., Seattle, WA United States of America

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Research, Seattle, WA United States of America

Madhumati Gundapuneni

Affiliation Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Mitchell J. Weiss

Affiliation Hematology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN United States of America

Alan Aderem

rosenberger.carrie@gene.com (CMR); alan.aderem@cidresearch.org (AA)

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Research, Seattle, WA United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: CMR is currently a paid employee of and owns stock in Genentech, Inc., a member of Roche. DR is a paid employee of Novo Nordisk, Inc. The research described in this manuscript was performed prior to both company affiliations. A US patent application has been filed by CMR and AA that includes data reported in this manuscript.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CMR AHD PMT JJP MJW AA. Formal analysis: MG. Funding acquisition: AA. Investigation: CMR RLP PMT DR. Methodology: JJP. Resources: JJP MJW. Software: MG. Supervision: AA. Writing – original draft: CMR. Writing – review & editing: CMR RLP AHD PMT JJP DR MG MJW AA.