About the Authors
- Simeone Marino
-
Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Dhruv Sud
-
Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America , Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Hillarie Plessner
-
Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Philana Ling Lin
-
Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- John Chan
-
Affiliations Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America , Department of Microbiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America , Department of Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America
- JoAnne L Flynn
-
Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Denise E Kirschner
-
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kirschne@umich.edu
Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America , Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America
Competing Interests
Our collaborator on this project, Joanne Flynn from the University of Pittsburgh, has received funding in the form of a Research Grant from Amgen, the company that makes Etanercept. Although this does not directly support the research in this manuscript, the Research Grant does fund studies on TNF and TB.
Author Contributions
SM, JLF, and DEK conceived and designed the experiments and wrote the paper. SM and PLL performed the experiments. SM, HP, PLL, JC, JLF, and DEK analyzed the data. SM, DS, HP, and PLL contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools.