About the Authors

Rashmi Choudhary

Current address: Department of Cell Biology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Dmitry Baturin

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Susan Fosmire

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Brian Freed

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Immunology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Christopher C. Porter

chris.porter@ucdenver.edu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RC CCP. Performed the experiments: RC DB SF CCP. Analyzed the data: RC CCP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BF. Wrote the paper: RC CCP.