About the Authors

Yuri O. Poluektov

Affiliation Graduate Program in Immunology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

AeRyon Kim

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Isamu Z. Hartman

Current address: Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Graduate Program in Immunology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Scheherazade Sadegh-Nasseri

ssadegh@jhmi.edu

Affiliations Graduate Program in Immunology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

S. Sadegh-Nasseri is an Academic Editor for PLOS ONE. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YP AK IZH SS-N. Performed the experiments: YP AK IZH. Analyzed the data: YP AK IZH SS-N. Wrote the paper: YP SS-N.