About the Authors

Felicity C. Stark

Contributed equally to this work with: Felicity C. Stark, Komal Gurnani

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Komal Gurnani

Contributed equally to this work with: Felicity C. Stark, Komal Gurnani

Affiliation National Research Council-Institute for Biological Sciences, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Subash Sad

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, National Research Council-Institute for Biological Sciences, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Lakshmi Krishnan

Lakshmi.Krishnan@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, National Research Council-Institute for Biological Sciences, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LK SS FCS. Performed the experiments: FCS KG. Analyzed the data: LK FS KG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS LK. Wrote the paper: LK FCS SS. Obtained permission for use of the fucosyl deficient mice strain from the consortium of functional glycomics: SS.