About the Authors

Tae-Hee Lee

¤ Current address: CHA Stem Cell Institute, College of Medicine, Pochon Cha University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Affiliation Division of Experimental Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Seyha Seng

Affiliation Division of Experimental Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Masayuki Sekine

Affiliation Division of Experimental Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Cimona Hinton

Affiliation Division of Experimental Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yigong Fu

Affiliation Division of Experimental Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hava Karsenty Avraham

Affiliation Division of Experimental Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Shalom Avraham

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: savraham@bidmc.harvard.edu

Affiliation Division of Experimental Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

THL, CH, YF, HKA, and SA designed the study. THL, SS, CH, YF, HKA, and SA analyzed the data. All authors contributed to writing the paper. SS, MS, CH, and YF collected data or performed experiments for the study. THL performed experiments for Figures 1–6 and 10, except for Figure 4C.