About the Authors

John F. Nomellini

Affiliation Microbiology and Immunology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Carmen Li

Affiliation Microbiology and Immunology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Danielle Lavallee

Affiliation Microbiology and Immunology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Iryna Shanina

Affiliation Microbiology and Immunology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Lisa A. Cavacini

Affiliation Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Marc S. Horwitz

Contributed equally to this work with: Marc S. Horwitz, John Smit

Affiliation Microbiology and Immunology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

John Smit

Contributed equally to this work with: Marc S. Horwitz, John Smit

jsmit@interchange.ubc.ca

Affiliation Microbiology and Immunology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSH JS. Performed the experiments: JFN CL DJL IS. Analyzed the data: JFN CL DJL IS LC MSH JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JS. Wrote the paper: MSH JS.