About the Authors

Sergey A. Shiryaev

Affiliation Inflammatory and Infectious Disease Center, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Alexei Y. Savinov

Affiliation Inflammatory and Infectious Disease Center, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Piotr Cieplak

Affiliation Inflammatory and Infectious Disease Center, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Boris I. Ratnikov

Affiliation Inflammatory and Infectious Disease Center, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Khatereh Motamedchaboki

Affiliation Inflammatory and Infectious Disease Center, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jeffrey W. Smith

Affiliation Inflammatory and Infectious Disease Center, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Alex Y. Strongin

strongin@burnham.org

Affiliation Inflammatory and Infectious Disease Center, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SAS AYS AYS. Performed the experiments: SAS AYS BIR KM. Analyzed the data: PC AYS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PC JWS. Wrote the paper: JWS AYS.