About the Authors

Jesus Segovia

Contributed equally to this work with: Jesus Segovia, Ahmed Sabbah

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Ahmed Sabbah

Contributed equally to this work with: Jesus Segovia, Ahmed Sabbah

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Victoria Mgbemena

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Su-Yu Tsai

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Te-Hung Chang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Michael T. Berton

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Ian R. Morris

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Irving C. Allen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jenny P.-Y. Ting

Affiliation Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Santanu Bose

bose@uthscsa.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JS AS VM SYT SB. Performed the experiments: JS AS VM SYT THC IRM. Analyzed the data: JS AS VM SYT THC SB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MTB ICA JPYT. Wrote the paper: SB JS AS.