About the Authors
- Mi-Sun Koo
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Affiliation Celgene Corporation, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Sabine Ehrt
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America
- Gilla Kaplan
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* E-mail: 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.