About the Authors

Min Fang

Affiliation Program of Viral Pathogenesis, Division of Basic Sciences, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Lewis L Lanier

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America , Cancer Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Luis J Sigal

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Luis.Sigal@FCCC.edu

Affiliation Program of Viral Pathogenesis, Division of Basic Sciences, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

LLL and the University of California (San Francisco, CA) have licensed intellectual property rights relating to NKG2D for commercial applications. The authors declare that no other competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

MF, LLL, and LJS designed research. MF performed research. LLL and LJS contributed reagents and analytic tools. MF, LLL, and LJS analyzed data. MF and LJS wrote the paper. MF, LLL, and LJS approved the final manuscript.