About the Authors

Wendy C. Carcamo

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Minoru Satoh

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Hideko Kasahara

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Naohiro Terada

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Takashi Hamazaki

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Jason Y. F. Chan

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Bing Yao

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Stephanie Tamayo

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Giovanni Covini

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano, Milan, Italy

Carlos A. von Mühlen

Affiliation Rheuma Clinic for Rheumatic Diseases, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Edward K. L. Chan

echan@ufl.edu

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WCC MS EKLC. Performed the experiments: WCC MS TH JYFC BY ST EKLC. Analyzed the data: WCC MS EKLC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HK NT CAvM GC. Wrote the paper: WCC MS EKLC.