About the Authors

Yubing Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yubing Liu, Imane Chakroun

Affiliations Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Imane Chakroun

Contributed equally to this work with: Yubing Liu, Imane Chakroun

Affiliations Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Dabo Yang

Affiliations Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ellias Horner

Affiliations Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Jieyi Liang

Affiliations Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Arif Aziz

Affiliation Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Alphonse Chu

Affiliations Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Yves De Repentigny

Affiliation Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

F. Jeffrey Dilworth

Affiliations Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Departments of Medicine, and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Rashmi Kothary

Affiliations Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Departments of Medicine, and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Alexandre Blais

alexandre.blais@uottawa.ca

Affiliations Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB YL IC RK FJD. Performed the experiments: YL DY IC EH JL AC YDR AB AA. Analyzed the data: YL DY IC EH JL AC RK AB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AA FJD. Wrote the paper: YL DY JL RK AB.