About the Authors

Jennifer Hartt Meyers

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

J. Shawn Justement

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Claire W. Hallahan

Affiliation Biostatistical Research Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Eric T. Blair

Affiliation Applied Biosystems, Foster City, California, United States of America

Yongming A. Sun

Affiliation Applied Biosystems, Foster City, California, United States of America

M. Angeline O'Shea

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Gregg Roby

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Shyam Kottilil

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Susan Moir

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Colin M. Kovacs

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Tae-Wook Chun

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: twchun@nih.gov

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Anthony S. Fauci

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TC JM AF. Performed the experiments: TC JM JJ. Analyzed the data: TC JM JJ CH EB YS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TC SM MO GR SK CK. Wrote the paper: TC JM AF.