About the Authors

Navin R. Mahadevan

Affiliation The Laboratory of Immunology, Department of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Veronika Anufreichik

Affiliation The Laboratory of Immunology, Department of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jeffrey J. Rodvold

Affiliation The Laboratory of Immunology, Department of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Kevin T. Chiu

Affiliation The Laboratory of Immunology, Department of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Homero Sepulveda

Affiliation BD Biosciences, San Diego, California, United States of America

Maurizio Zanetti

mzanetti@ucsd.edu

Affiliation The Laboratory of Immunology, Department of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts. Patent Application titled: “Modulation of the stress and pro-inflammatory response of the endoplasmic reticulum”. Provisional Application No. 61470972. Applicants: Maurizio Zanetti and Navin Mahadevan. Dr. Homero Sepulveda is an employee of Becton Dickinson, a for-profit organization. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NRM MZ. Performed the experiments: NRM VA JJR KTC HS. Analyzed the data: NRM VA JJR HS MZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HS. Wrote the paper: NRM MZ.