About the Authors

Kenichi Shimada

Affiliation Division of Pediatrics Infectious Disease and Immunology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Timothy R. Crother

Affiliation Division of Pediatrics Infectious Disease and Immunology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Justin Karlin

Affiliation Division of Pediatrics Infectious Disease and Immunology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Shuang Chen

Affiliation Division of Pediatrics Infectious Disease and Immunology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Norika Chiba

Affiliation Division of Pediatrics Infectious Disease and Immunology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

V. Krishnan Ramanujan

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Laurent Vergnes

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

David M. Ojcius

Affiliation Health Sciences Research Institute and School of Natural Sciences, University of California Merced, Merced, California, United States of America

Moshe Arditi

arditi.moshe@cshs.org

Affiliation Division of Pediatrics Infectious Disease and Immunology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at 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: KS TRC SC NC DMO VKR MA. Performed the experiments: KS JK VKR LV. Analyzed the data: KS TRC JK MA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VKR LV DO MA. Wrote the paper: KS TRC JK MA.