About the Authors

Ling Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ling Lu, Jilin Ma

Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Saban Research Institute, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Key Laboratory of Living Donor Liver Transplantation, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Jilin Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Ling Lu, Jilin Ma

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Nephrology, Zhejiang Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine Hospital, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

Zhiyuan Li

Affiliation Unit of Molecular Immunology, Institute Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Qin Lan

Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Saban Research Institute, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Immune Tolerance Center, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Maogen Chen

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Saban Research Institute, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ya Liu

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Saban Research Institute, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Zanxian Xia

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Saban Research Institute, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Julie Wang

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Saban Research Institute, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Yuanping Han

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Saban Research Institute, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Wei Shi

Affiliation Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine Program, Saban Research Institute, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Valerie Quesniaux

Affiliation UMR6218, Molecular Immunology, University and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Orleans, France

Bernhard Ryffel

Affiliation UMR6218, Molecular Immunology, University and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Orleans, France

David Brand

Affiliation Research Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Bin Li

Affiliation Unit of Molecular Immunology, Institute Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Zhongmin Liu

zhongmin_liu@sina.com

Affiliation Immune Tolerance Center, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Song Guo Zheng

Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Saban Research Institute, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, UMR6218, Molecular Immunology, University and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Orleans, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SGZ ZML. Performed the experiments: LL JM QL JW YPH DB BL ZYL YL MGC ZXX. Analyzed the data: LL WS BL ZML VQ BR. Wrote the paper: SGZ.