About the Authors

Zuhair K. Ballas

ballasz@uiowa.edu (ZKB); michael-shey@uiowa.edu (MRS)

Affiliation Iowa City VA Medical Center and the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Claire M. Buchta

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Immunology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Timothy R. Rosean

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Immunology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Jonathan W. Heusel

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Michael R. Shey

ballasz@uiowa.edu (ZKB); michael-shey@uiowa.edu (MRS)

Affiliation Iowa City VA Medical Center and the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZKB JWH. Performed the experiments: CMB TRR MRS. Analyzed the data: ZKB MRS JWH TRR CMB. Wrote the paper: ZKB MRS.