About the Authors

Elisabeth Lippert

Affiliations Department of Medicine and Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Regensburg, Regenburg, Germany

Thomas Karrasch

Affiliations Department of Medicine and Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Regensburg, Regenburg, Germany

Xiaolun Sun

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Brigitte Allard

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Hans H. Herfarth

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Deborah Threadgill

Affiliations Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Christian Jobin

Job@med.unc.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine and Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 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: CJ. Performed the experiments: EL TK XS BA. Analyzed the data: EL TK DT CJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HHH DT. Wrote the paper: EL TK CJ.