About the Authors

Jing Jing Li

Affiliation Centre for Asthma and Respiratory Disease, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medicine, The University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia

Hock L. Tay

Affiliation Centre for Asthma and Respiratory Disease, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medicine, The University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia

Maximilian Plank

Affiliation Centre for Asthma and Respiratory Disease, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medicine, The University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia

Ama-Tawiah Essilfie

Affiliation Centre for Asthma and Respiratory Disease, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medicine, The University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia

Philip M. Hansbro

Affiliation Centre for Asthma and Respiratory Disease, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medicine, The University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia

Paul S. Foster

Ming.Yang@newcastle.edu.au (MY); Paul.Foster@newcastle.edu.au (PSF)

Affiliation Centre for Asthma and Respiratory Disease, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medicine, The University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia

Ming Yang

Ming.Yang@newcastle.edu.au (MY); Paul.Foster@newcastle.edu.au (PSF)

Affiliation Centre for Asthma and Respiratory Disease, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medicine, The University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JJL PSF MY. Performed the experiments: JJL HLT MP. Analyzed the data: JJL PSF MY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ATE PMH. Wrote the paper: JJL PSF MY.