About the Authors

Orit Itzhaki

Contributed equally to this work with: Orit Itzhaki, Eyal Greenberg

Affiliation Ella Institute of Melanoma, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Eyal Greenberg

Contributed equally to this work with: Orit Itzhaki, Eyal Greenberg

Affiliations Ella Institute of Melanoma, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Bruria Shalmon

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Adva Kubi

Affiliation Ella Institute of Melanoma, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Avraham J. Treves

Affiliation Cancer Research Center, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Ronnie Shapira-Frommer

Affiliation Ella Institute of Melanoma, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Camilla Avivi

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Rona Ortenberg

Affiliations Ella Institute of Melanoma, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Eytan Ben-Ami

Affiliation Ella Institute of Melanoma, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Jacob Schachter

Affiliation Ella Institute of Melanoma, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Michal J. Besser

markel@post.tau.ac.il (GM) (MB); michal.besser@sheba.health.gov.il (MJB) (GM)

Affiliations Ella Institute of Melanoma, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Gal Markel

markel@post.tau.ac.il (GM) (MB); michal.besser@sheba.health.gov.il (MJB) (GM)

Affiliations Ella Institute of Melanoma, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Talpiot Medical Leadership Program, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OI EG MJB GM. Performed the experiments: OI EG. Analyzed the data: OI EG BS AK AJT RSF RO EBA MJB GM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJB CA JS GM. Wrote the paper: OI MJB JS GM.