About the Authors

Xiaosheng Wu

Affiliation Department of Immunology, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Renee C. Tschumper

Affiliation Department of Immunology, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Albert Gutierrez Jr.

Affiliation Department of Immunology, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Stephen A. Mihalcik

Affiliation Department of Immunology, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Grzegorz S. Nowakowski

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Diane F. Jelinek

jelinek.diane@mayo.edu

Affiliation Department of Immunology, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XW DFJ. Performed the experiments: XW RCT. Analyzed the data: XW RCT AG SAM GSN DFJ. Wrote the paper: XW DFJ.