About the Authors
- Frances Humby
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Contributed equally to this work with: Frances Humby, Michele Bombardieri
Affiliation William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Charterhouse Square, London, United Kingdom
- Michele Bombardieri
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Contributed equally to this work with: Frances Humby, Michele Bombardieri
Affiliation William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Charterhouse Square, London, United Kingdom
- Antonio Manzo
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Affiliation William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Charterhouse Square, London, United Kingdom
- Stephen Kelly
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Affiliation William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Charterhouse Square, London, United Kingdom
- Mark C Blades
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Affiliation William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Charterhouse Square, London, United Kingdom
- Bruce Kirkham
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Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Kings College London, Guy's Hospital, St Thomas Street, London, United Kingdom
- Jo Spencer
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Affiliation Division of Infection, Immunity and Inflammatory Diseases, Kings College London, Guy's Hospital, St Thomas Street, London, United Kingdom
- Costantino Pitzalis
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: c.pitzalis@qmul.ac.uk
Affiliation William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Charterhouse Square, London, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
FH and MB conceived the study design, performed the experiments, interpreted data and wrote the manuscript. AM performed experiments, interpreted data and contributed to methodology and manuscript preparation. SK collected tissue samples. MCB performed tissue transplantation and interpreted data. BK contributed to manuscript preparation. JS contributed to methodology and critically reviewed the manuscript. CP led the team effort as well as the study design, data interpretation and manuscript preparation.