About the Authors

Elena E. Paskaleva

Affiliation Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Jing Xue

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America

David Y-W. Lee

Affiliation Mailman Research Center, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alexander Shekhtman

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America

Mario Canki

cankim@mail.amc.edu

Affiliation Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, 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: DYWL AS MC. Performed the experiments: EEP JX. Analyzed the data: EEP JX AS MC. Wrote the paper: AS MC.