About the Authors

Chunmei Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chunmei Yang, Heehyoung Lee

Affiliation Department of Cancer Immunotherapeutics and Tumor Immunology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Heehyoung Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Chunmei Yang, Heehyoung Lee

Affiliation Department of Cancer Immunotherapeutics and Tumor Immunology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Veronica Jove

Affiliation Department of Cancer Immunotherapeutics and Tumor Immunology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Jiehui Deng

Affiliation Department of Cancer Immunotherapeutics and Tumor Immunology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Wang Zhang

Affiliation Department of Cancer Immunotherapeutics and Tumor Immunology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Xueli Liu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Stephen Forman

Affiliation Department of Hematology, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Thanh H. Dellinger

Affiliation Department of Surgery, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Mark Wakabayashi

Affiliation Department of Surgery, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Hua Yu

spal@coh.org (SP); hyu@coh.org (HY)

Affiliation Department of Cancer Immunotherapeutics and Tumor Immunology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Sumanta Pal

spal@coh.org (SP); hyu@coh.org (HY)

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CY HL VJ JD WZ XL SF TD MW HY SP. Performed the experiments: CY HL VJ JD WZ XL HY SP. Analyzed the data: XL HY SP. Wrote the paper: CY HL VJ JD WZ XL SF TD MW HY SP.