About the Authors

Andrew D. Schweitzer

Affiliations Department of Nuclear Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Medical Fellows Program, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Robertha C. Howell

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Zewei Jiang

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Ruth A. Bryan

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Gary Gerfen

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Chin-Cheng Chen

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Dennis Mah

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Sean Cahill

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Arturo Casadevall

Contributed equally to this work with: Arturo Casadevall, Ekaterina Dadachova

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Ekaterina Dadachova

Contributed equally to this work with: Arturo Casadevall, Ekaterina Dadachova

edadacho@aecom.yu.edu

Affiliations Department of Nuclear Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS ZJ RAB GG DM AC ED. Performed the experiments: AS RCH ZJ RAB GG CCC SC. Analyzed the data: AS RCH ZJ RAB GG CCC DM SC AC ED. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GG CCC DM SC. Wrote the paper: AS AC ED.