About the Authors

Frederico Alisson-Silva

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Instituto de Biofisica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Affiliation Glycobiology Research and Training Center (GRTC), Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA), Departments of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America

Janet Z. Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

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

Sandra L. Diaz

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Glycobiology Research and Training Center (GRTC), Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA), Departments of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America

Lingquan Deng

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Glycobiology Research and Training Center (GRTC), Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA), Departments of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America

Mélanie G. Gareau

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Current address: Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States of America.

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

Ronald Marchelletta

Roles Methodology

Current address: Janssen Research and Development, La Jolla, CA, United States of America.

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

Xi Chen

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of California Davis, Davis CA, United States of America

Victor Nizet

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America

Nissi Varki

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Glycobiology Research and Training Center (GRTC), Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA), Departments of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America

Kim E. Barrett

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

a1varki@ucsd.edu (AV); kbarrett@ucsd.edu (KEB)

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

Ajit Varki

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

a1varki@ucsd.edu (AV); kbarrett@ucsd.edu (KEB)

Affiliation Glycobiology Research and Training Center (GRTC), Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA), Departments of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exists.