About the Authors

Dae-Goon Yoo

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Infectious Disease, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Min-Chul Kim

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

Min-Kyung Park

Affiliations Center for Inflammation, Immunity, and Infection, and Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Human Nutrition and Food Science, Chungwoon University, Namjang-Ri, Hongsung-Eup, Hongsung-Kun, Chungnam, Korea

Kyoung-Mi Park

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

Fu-Shi Quan

Affiliation Department of Medical Zoology, Kyung Hee University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Jae-Min Song

Affiliations Center for Inflammation, Immunity, and Infection, and Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Global Medical Science, Sungshin Women's University, Seoul, Korea

Jae Joon Wee

Affiliation Research and Development Institute, Korea Ginseng Corporation, Taejeon, Korea

Bao-Zhong Wang

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

Young-Keol Cho

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea

Richard W. Compans

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

Sang-Moo Kang

skang24@gsu.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Center for Inflammation, Immunity, and Infection, and Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DGY RWC SMK. Performed the experiments: DGY MCK MKP KMP BZW. Analyzed the data: DGY SMK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FSQ JMS JJW YKC SMK. Wrote the paper: SMK.