About the Authors

Alison K. Bauer

Contributed equally to this work with: Alison K. Bauer, Hye-Youn Cho

alison.bauer@ucdenver.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology and Diagnostic Investigation, College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan , United States of America

Hye-Youn Cho

Contributed equally to this work with: Alison K. Bauer, Hye-Youn Cho

Affiliation Laboratory of Respiratory Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Laura Miller-DeGraff

Affiliation Laboratory of Respiratory Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Christopher Walker

Affiliation Laboratory of Respiratory Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Katherine Helms

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology and Diagnostic Investigation, College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan , United States of America

Jennifer Fostel

Affiliation Laboratory of Respiratory Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Masayuki Yamamoto

Affiliation Division of Medical Biochemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Steven R. Kleeberger

Affiliation Laboratory of Respiratory Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AKB HYC. Performed the experiments: LMD CW KH AKB HYC. Analyzed the data: AKB HY JF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MY. Wrote the paper: AKB HY SRK.