About the Authors

Fukun Guo

fukun.guo@cchmc.org

Affiliation Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Shuangmin Zhang

Affiliation Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Pulak Tripathi

Affiliation Division of Immunobiology, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Jochen Mattner

Affiliations Division of Immunobiology, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Microbiology Institute-Clinical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen und Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

James Phelan

Affiliation Division of Immunobiology, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Alyssa Sproles

Affiliation Division of Immunobiology, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Jun Mo

Affiliation Division of Pathology, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Marsha Wills-Karp

Affiliation Division of Immunobiology, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

H. Leighton Grimes

Affiliation Division of Immunobiology, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

David Hildeman

Affiliation Division of Immunobiology, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Yi Zheng

Affiliation Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FG PT J. Mattner DH YZ. Performed the experiments: FG SZ PT J. Mattner JP AS J. Muo. Analyzed the data: FG J. Mattner J. Muo DH YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FG J. Mattner J. Muo MW HLG DH YZ. Wrote the paper: FG DH YZ.