About the Authors

Yu Lei

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Lei, Chris B. Moore

Affiliations Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Oral Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Chris B. Moore

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Lei, Chris B. Moore

Affiliations Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Rachael M. Liesman

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Brian P. O'Connor

Affiliations Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Daniel T. Bergstralh

Affiliation Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Zhijian J. Chen

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Raymond J. Pickles

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jenny P.-Y. Ting

Jenny_Ting@med.unc.edu

Affiliations Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL CBM JPYT. Performed the experiments: YL CBM RML BPO DTB RJP. Analyzed the data: YL CBM RML BPO DTB RJP JPYT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RML ZJC. Wrote the paper: YL CBM JPYT.