About the Authors
- Lee Kozakiewicz
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Contributed equally to this work with: Lee Kozakiewicz, Yong Chen
Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America
- Yong Chen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Lee Kozakiewicz, Yong Chen
Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America
- Jiayong Xu
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America
- Yanhua Wang
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America
- Kyri Dunussi-Joannopoulos
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Affiliation Immunology and Autoimmunity, Biotherapeutic Research, Pfizer, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Qinglin Ou
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Affiliation Department of Immunology and Antibody Engineering, Genentech, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Joanne L. Flynn
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Steven A. Porcelli
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Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- William R. Jacobs Jr
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Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America
- John Chan
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* E-mail: john.chan@einstein.yu.edu
Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
Competing Interests
Kyri Dunussi-Joannopoulos was affiliated as a researcher with Wyeth/Pfizer. Qinglin Ou is currently a researcher at Genentech. This does not alter our adherence to all PLoS Pathogens policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: LK YC KDJ QO JLF SAP WRJ JC. Performed the experiments: LK YC JX YW. Analyzed the data: LK YC YW JLF SAP WRJ JC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KDJ QO. Wrote the paper: LK YC JLF JC.