About the Authors

Irina V. Lyadova

ivlyadova@mail.ru

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Central Tuberculosis Research Institute, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation

Evgeny N. Tsiganov

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Central Tuberculosis Research Institute, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation

Marina A. Kapina

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Central Tuberculosis Research Institute, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation

Galena S. Shepelkova

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Central Tuberculosis Research Institute, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation

Vasily V. Sosunov

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Central Tuberculosis Research Institute, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation

Tatiana V. Radaeva

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Central Tuberculosis Research Institute, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation

Konstantin B. Majorov

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Central Tuberculosis Research Institute, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation

Natalya S. Shmitova

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Central Tuberculosis Research Institute, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation

Henk-Jan van den Ham

Affiliation Department of Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Vitaly V. Ganusov

Current address: Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Post-Graduate Studies, Institute of Biophysics SB RAS (Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch), Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation

Rob J. De Boer

Affiliation Department of Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Rachael Racine

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

Gary M. Winslow

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IVL GMW. Performed the experiments: IVL ENT MAK GSS VVS TVR KBM NSS RR. Analyzed the data: IVL ENT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IVL GMW. Wrote the paper: IVL HJvdH VVG RJDB GMW. Co-wrote/edited the paper: ENT. Performed statistical analysis of the data: HJvdH. Performed statistical analysis of the data: VVG. Performed statistical analysis of the paper: RJDB.