About the Authors

Alistair K. Brown

Affiliations School of Biosciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom, School of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Rebecca C. Taylor

Affiliation School of Biosciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Apoorva Bhatt

Affiliation School of Biosciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Klaus Fütterer

Affiliation School of Biosciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Gurdyal S. Besra

g.besra@bham.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Biosciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AKB GSB. Performed the experiments: AKB RCT AB KF. Analyzed the data: AKB RCT AB KF GSB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KF. Wrote the paper: KF GSB.