About the Authors

Yung-Chi Chang

Affiliations Glycobiology Research and Training Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Zhipeng Wang

Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lindsay A. Flax

Affiliation Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ding Xu

Affiliations Glycobiology Research and Training Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jeffrey D. Esko

Affiliations Glycobiology Research and Training Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Victor Nizet

vnizet@ucsd.edu (VN); mbaron@partners.org (MJB)

Affiliations Glycobiology Research and Training Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, California, United States of America

Miriam J. Baron

vnizet@ucsd.edu (VN); mbaron@partners.org (MJB)

Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YC ZW JDE VN MJB. Performed the experiments: YC ZW LAF DX MJB. Analyzed the data: YC ZW LAF DX JDE VN MJB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZW JDE VN MJB. Wrote the paper: YC JDE VN MJB.