About the Authors

Mark Sharkey

Contributed equally to this work with: Mark Sharkey, Dunja Z. Babic

Affiliations Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Dunja Z. Babic

Contributed equally to this work with: Mark Sharkey, Dunja Z. Babic

Affiliations Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Thomas Greenough

Affiliation Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Roy Gulick

Affiliation Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Daniel R. Kuritzkes

Affiliation Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United State of America

Mario Stevenson

MStevenson@med.miami.edu

Affiliations Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: M. Sharkey, D. Babic, M. Stevenson. Performed the experiments: M. Sharkey, D. Babic. Analyzed the data: M. Sharkey, D. Babic, D. Kuritzkes, M. Stevenson. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: T. Greenough, R. Gulick, D. Kuritzkes. Wrote the paper: M. Sharkey, D. Babic, D. Kuritzkes, M. Stevenson. Provided input on the manuscript: T. Greenough, R. Gulick.