About the Authors

Marceline Côté

Contributed equally to this work with: Marceline Côté, Yi-Min Zheng

Current address: Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Yi-Min Zheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Marceline Côté, Yi-Min Zheng

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Christopher Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Shan-Lu Liu

liushan@missouri.edu

Affiliations Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Christopher Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MC YZ S-LL. Performed the experiments: MC YZ. Analyzed the data: MC YZ S-LL. Wrote the paper: MC YZ S-LL.