About the Authors

Kathleen H. Rubins

rubins@wi.mit.edu

Current address: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Lisa E. Hensley

Affiliation US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

George W. Bell

Affiliation Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Chunlin Wang

Affiliation University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Elliot J. Lefkowitz

Affiliation University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Patrick O. Brown

Affiliations Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

David A. Relman

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, and Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DAR KHR LEH POB. Performed the experiments: KHR. Analyzed the data: GWB KHR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GWB EJL CW LEH. Wrote the paper: KHR.