About the Authors

Byung Ha Chung

Contributed equally to this work with: Byung Ha Chung, Kyoung Woon Kim

Affiliations Convergent Research Consortium for Immunologic disease, St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Korea, Transplant research center, St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Korea, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Korea

Kyoung Woon Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Byung Ha Chung, Kyoung Woon Kim

Affiliations Convergent Research Consortium for Immunologic disease, St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Korea, Transplant research center, St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Korea

Bo-Mi Kim

Affiliations Convergent Research Consortium for Immunologic disease, St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Korea, Transplant research center, St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Korea

Kyoung Chan Doh

Affiliations Convergent Research Consortium for Immunologic disease, St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Korea, Transplant research center, St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Korea

Mi-La Cho

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Convergent Research Consortium for Immunologic disease, St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Korea

Chul Woo Yang

yangch@catholic.ac.kr

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Convergent Research Consortium for Immunologic disease, St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Korea, Transplant research center, St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Korea, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BHC KWK MLC CWY. Performed the experiments: BHC KWK BMK. Analyzed the data: BHC KWK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BMK KCD. Wrote the paper: BHC KWK MLC CWY.