About the Authors

Aurélie Crabbé

Contributed equally to this work with: Aurélie Crabbé, Sheila M. Nielsen-Preiss

Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Sheila M. Nielsen-Preiss

Contributed equally to this work with: Aurélie Crabbé, Sheila M. Nielsen-Preiss

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montanta, United States of America

Christine M. Woolley

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montanta, United States of America

Jennifer Barrila

Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Kent Buchanan

Affiliations Department of Biology, Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Program in Molecular Pathogenesis and Immunity, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

James McCracken

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Program in Molecular Pathogenesis and Immunity, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Diabetes and Obesity Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Diane O. Inglis

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, California, United States of America

Stephen C. Searles

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montanta, United States of America

Mayra A. Nelman-Gonzalez

Affiliation Wyle Science, Technology and Engineering Group, Houston, Texas, United States of America

C. Mark Ott

Affiliation Biomedical Research and Environmental Sciences Division, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

James W. Wilson

Affiliations Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Program in Molecular Pathogenesis and Immunity, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Biology, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Duane L. Pierson

Affiliation Biomedical Research and Environmental Sciences Division, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Heidemarie M. Stefanyshyn-Piper

Affiliation Astronaut Office, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Linda E. Hyman

Affiliations Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montanta, United States of America, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Cheryl A. Nickerson

cheryl.nickerson@asu.edu

Affiliations School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Program in Molecular Pathogenesis and Immunity, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CN CO DP. Performed the experiments: AC SNP CW KB JM SS MNG JW HSP. Analyzed the data: AC SNP JB LH DOI. Wrote the paper: AC SNP JB CN.