About the Authors

Sharad P. Adekar

Affiliation Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Tsuyoshi Takahashi

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Environmental Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

R. Mark Jones

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Fetweh H. Al-Saleem

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Environmental Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Denise M. Ancharski

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Environmental Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Michael J. Root

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

B. P. Kapadnis

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Pune, Pune, India

Lance L. Simpson

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Environmental Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Scott K. Dessain

dessains@mlhs.org

Affiliation Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

SKD has ownership in a start-up company (Immunome, Inc.), which intends to license the 4LCA antibody. SPA is a part-time employee of Immunome.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SPA RMJ MJR BPK LS SKD. Performed the experiments: SPA TT RMJ FHFHAS DMA. Analyzed the data: SPA RMJ MJR LS SKD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TT LS. Wrote the paper: SPA RMJ MJR LS SKD.