About the Authors

XinTian Zhang

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University Medical School, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Ling Ding

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China

LianGuo Kang

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University Medical School, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Zhao-Yi Wang

zywang@creighton.edu

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University Medical School, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZW LK XZ. Performed the experiments: XZ LK LD. Analyzed the data: ZW LK XZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZW LK XZ. Wrote the paper: ZW LK.