About the Authors
- Qiang Zhang
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Mir Munir A. Rahim
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- David S. J. Allan
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Affiliation Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Megan M. Tu
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Simon Belanger
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Elias Abou-Samra
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Jaehun Ma
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Affiliation Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Harman S. Sekhon
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Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Todd Fairhead
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Affiliation Kidney Research Centre, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Haggag S. Zein
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Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Genetics, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
- James R. Carlyle
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* E-mail: amakrigi@uottawa.ca (APM); james.carlyle@utoronto.ca (JRC); andersonst@mail.nih.gov (SKA)
Affiliation Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Stephen K. Anderson
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* E-mail: amakrigi@uottawa.ca (APM); james.carlyle@utoronto.ca (JRC); andersonst@mail.nih.gov (SKA)
Affiliation Basic Science Program, SAIC-Frederick Inc., Laboratory of Experimental Immunology, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
- Andrew P. Makrigiannis
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* E-mail: amakrigi@uottawa.ca (APM); james.carlyle@utoronto.ca (JRC); andersonst@mail.nih.gov (SKA)
Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Competing Interests
None of the authors have any competing financial interests. Dr. Stephen K. Anderson is employed by SAIC-Frederick Inc. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: APM SKA JRC. Performed the experiments: QZ MMAR MMT SB EAS HSZ JM. Analyzed the data: DA HSS TF SKA JRC APM. Wrote the paper: SKA JRC APM.