About the Authors

Nisebita Sahu

Current address: Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliations Center for Molecular Immunology and Infectious Disease and Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

J. Luis Morales

Affiliation Center for Molecular Immunology and Infectious Disease and Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Deborah Fowell

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Avery August

averyaugust@cornell.edu

Affiliation Center for Molecular Immunology and Infectious Disease and Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NS AA. Performed the experiments: NS JLM. Analyzed the data: NS JLM AA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DF. Wrote the paper: NS JLM DF AA.