About the Authors

Aric L. Gregson

a.gregson@ucla.edu

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Aki Hoji

Current address: Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation UCLA AIDS Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Vyacheslav Palchevskiy

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Scott Hu

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

S. Samuel Weigt

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Eileen Liao

Affiliation Department of Biomathematics/Biostatistics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ariss Derhovanessian

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Rajeev Saggar

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Sophie Song

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Robert Elashoff

Affiliation Department of Biomathematics/Biostatistics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Otto O. Yang

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, UCLA AIDS Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles California, United States of America

John A. Belperio

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AG AH JAB. Performed the experiments: AG VP SH. Analyzed the data: AG AH EL RME. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AG VP SH SSW AD RS SS OOY JAB. Wrote the paper: AG OOY JAB.