About the Authors

Yiorgos Apidianakis

Contributed equally to this work with: Yiorgos Apidianakis, Michael N. Mindrinos

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriner's Burns Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael N. Mindrinos

Contributed equally to this work with: Yiorgos Apidianakis, Michael N. Mindrinos

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Wenzhong Xiao

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

George P. Tegos

Affiliation Department of Dermatology Harvard Medical School and Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michail I. Papisov

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Bioengineering, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael R. Hamblin

Affiliation Department of Dermatology Harvard Medical School and Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ronald W. Davis

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Ronald G. Tompkins

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriner's Burns Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Laurence G. Rahme

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: rahme@amber.mgh.harvard.edu

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriner's Burns Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LR YA MM. Performed the experiments: YA MM GT. Analyzed the data: LR YA MM WX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MP MH RT RD. Wrote the paper: LR YA.