About the Authors

Jason M. Weaver

Affiliation David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Hongmei Yang

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

David Roumanes

Affiliation David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

F. Eun-Hyung Lee

Current address: Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Hulin Wu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

John J. Treanor

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Tim R. Mosmann

Tim_Mosmann@urmc.rochester.edu

Affiliation David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMW DRR FEL JJT TRM. Performed the experiments: JMW DRR. Analyzed the data: JMW HY DRR FEL HW TRM. Wrote the paper: JMW HY DRR FEL HW JJT TRM.