About the Authors

Mi-Sun Koo

Affiliation Laboratory of Mycobacterial Immunity and Pathogenesis, The Public Health Research Institute Center at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Claudia Manca

Affiliation Laboratory of Mycobacterial Immunity and Pathogenesis, The Public Health Research Institute Center at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Guibin Yang

Affiliation Laboratory of Mycobacterial Immunity and Pathogenesis, The Public Health Research Institute Center at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Paul O'Brien

Affiliation Laboratory of Mycobacterial Immunity and Pathogenesis, The Public Health Research Institute Center at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Nackmoon Sung

Affiliations Laboratory of Mycobacterial Immunity and Pathogenesis, The Public Health Research Institute Center at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America, National Masan Hospital Clinical Research Center, Masan City Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

Liana Tsenova

Affiliation Laboratory of Mycobacterial Immunity and Pathogenesis, The Public Health Research Institute Center at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Selvakumar Subbian

Affiliation Laboratory of Mycobacterial Immunity and Pathogenesis, The Public Health Research Institute Center at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Dorothy Fallows

Affiliation Laboratory of Mycobacterial Immunity and Pathogenesis, The Public Health Research Institute Center at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

George Muller

Affiliation Celgene Corporation, San Diego, California, United States of America

Sabine Ehrt

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Gilla Kaplan

kaplangi@umdnj.edu

Affiliation Laboratory of Mycobacterial Immunity and Pathogenesis, The Public Health Research Institute Center at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

GK is a member of the Board of Directors of Celgene Corporation, and GM is employed by Celgene Corporation, the company that provided the drug for these studies. The drug which is owned by Celgene was provided free of charge and there are no patents, products and development, or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS One policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MK DF GK. Performed the experiments: MK CM PO NS LT. Analyzed the data: MK CM GY LT SS SE GK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GM. Wrote the paper: MK CM DF GK. Provided the drug CC-3052: GM.