About the Authors
- Tonika Lam
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Contributed equally to this work with: Tonika Lam, Lisa M. Thomas
Affiliations Institute for Immunology, School of Medicine and School of Biological Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
- Lisa M. Thomas
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Contributed equally to this work with: Tonika Lam, Lisa M. Thomas
Current address: Genomic Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, United States of America
Affiliation Institute for Immunology, School of Medicine and School of Biological Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
- Clayton A. White
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Affiliation Institute for Immunology, School of Medicine and School of Biological Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
- Guideng Li
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Affiliation Institute for Immunology, School of Medicine and School of Biological Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
- Egest J. Pone
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Affiliation Institute for Immunology, School of Medicine and School of Biological Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
- Zhenming Xu
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Affiliations Institute for Immunology, School of Medicine and School of Biological Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
- Paolo Casali
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* E-mail: pcasali@uci.edu
Affiliations Institute for Immunology, School of Medicine and School of Biological Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Lisa M. Thomas performed experiments at the University of California, Irvine, prior to her employment at the Novartis Institute (San Diego, California, United States of America).
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: ZX PC. Performed the experiments: TL LMT CAW GL EJP ZX. Analyzed the data: TL LMT CAW GL EJP ZX PC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TL LMT CAW GL EJP ZX PC. Wrote the paper: TL ZX PC.