About the Authors

Yi-Wei Tang

yiwei.tang@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Subramaniam Sriram

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Haijing Li

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Song-yi Yao

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Shufang Meng

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

William M. Mitchell

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Charles W. Stratton

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YWT SS WM CS. Performed the experiments: HL SyY SM. Analyzed the data: YWT HL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YWT SyY WM. Wrote the paper: YWT SS CS.