About the Authors

Priya Uppuluri

Contributed equally to this work with: Priya Uppuluri, Lin Lin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Lin Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Priya Uppuluri, Lin Lin

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Abdullah Alqarihi

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

Guanpingsheng Luo

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

Eman G. Youssef

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America, Department of Biotechnology and Life Sciences, Faculty of Postgraduate Studies for Advanced Sciences (PSAS), Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt

Sondus Alkhazraji

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

Nannette Y. Yount

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

Belal A. Ibrahim

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Portola High School, Irvine, California, United States of America

Michael Anthony Bolaris

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

John E. Edwards Jr.

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Marc Swidergall

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

Scott G. Filler

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Michael R. Yeaman

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ashraf S. Ibrahim

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

ibrahim@labiomed.org

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: JEE, SGF, MRY, and ASI own equity in Novadigm, Inc., which is developing immunotherapeutic and vaccine candidates against fungi and bacteria. Novadigm Inc. provided no financial support for these studies. This does not alter our adherence to all PLOS policies on sharing data and materials.