About the Authors

Xinghong Yang

yangxh@montana.edu

Affiliation Department of Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Theresa Thornburg

Affiliation Department of Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Zhiyong Suo

Affiliation Imaging and Chemical Analysis Laboratory, Department of Physics, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

SangMu Jun

Affiliations Department of Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America, Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Amanda Robison

Affiliation Department of Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Jinquan Li

Affiliation Department of Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Timothy Lim

Affiliation Department of Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Ling Cao

Affiliation Department of Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Teri Hoyt

Affiliation Department of Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Recep Avci

Affiliation Imaging and Chemical Analysis Laboratory, Department of Physics, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

David W. Pascual

Affiliations Department of Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America, Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology, 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: XY DWP. Performed the experiments: XY TT ZS SJ AR JL TL LC TH RA. Analyzed the data: XY DWP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DWP RA XY. Wrote the paper: XY DWP.