About the Authors

Zhizhou Kuang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhizhou Kuang, Yonghua Hao

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Yonghua Hao

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhizhou Kuang, Yonghua Hao

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Brent E. Walling

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Jayme L. Jeffries

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Dennis E. Ohman

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Gee W. Lau

geelau@uiuc.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZK YH BEW GWL. Performed the experiments: ZK YH BEW JLJ GWL. Analyzed the data: ZK YH BEW GWL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZK BEW DEO GWL. Wrote the paper: ZK GWL.