About the Authors

Gerco den Hartog

Contributed equally to this work with: Gerco den Hartog, Ranajoy Chattopadhyay

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Ranajoy Chattopadhyay

Contributed equally to this work with: Gerco den Hartog, Ranajoy Chattopadhyay

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Amber Ablack

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Emily H. Hall

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Lindsay D. Butcher

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Asima Bhattacharyya

Affiliation National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, India

Lars Eckmann

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Paul R. Harris

Affiliation Division of Pediatrics, Unit of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, School of Medicine, Pontifical Catholic University, Santiago, Chile

Soumita Das

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Peter B. Ernst

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Sheila E. Crowe

secrowe@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RC SD PBE SEC. Performed the experiments: RC GdH AA EHH AB LDB. Analyzed the data: RC GdH AA LDB LE SD SEC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB PRH SD. Wrote the paper: RC GdH SD LE PBE LDB SEC.