Constitutive secretion of pro-IL-18 allows keratinocytes to initiate inflammation during bacterial infection

• Anders F. Johnson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anders F. Johnson, Jenna S. Sands

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Jenna S. Sands ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anders F. Johnson, Jenna S. Sands

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Keya M. Trivedi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Raedeen Russell,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Doris L. LaRock,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Christopher N. LaRock

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: christopher.larock@emory.edu

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Emory Antibiotic Resistance Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3035-5331

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