About the Authors

Sebnem Unlu

unlus@upmc.edu (SU); or lotzemt@upmc.edu (MTL)

Affiliation Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Siuwah Tang

Affiliation Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

E. na Wang

Affiliation Infectious Disease and Immunogenetics Laboratory, Department of Transfusion Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ivan Martinez

Affiliation Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Daolin Tang

Affiliation Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Marco E. Bianchi

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Functional Genomics, San Raffaele University and Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy

Herbert J. Zeh III

Affiliation Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Michael T. Lotze

unlus@upmc.edu (SU); or lotzemt@upmc.edu (MTL)

Affiliation Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MTL SU DT ST EW IM MB HZ. Performed the experiments: SU DT. Analyzed the data: MTL SU DT ST EW IM MB HZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MTL HZ. Wrote the paper: MTL SU.