About the Authors

Xin Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Gao, Yibei Zhu

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Institute of Medical Biotechnology, Soochow University, Suzhou, People's Republic of China

Yibei Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Gao, Yibei Zhu

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Institute of Medical Biotechnology, Soochow University, Suzhou, People's Republic of China, Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Gang Li

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Institute of Medical Biotechnology, Soochow University, Suzhou, People's Republic of China

Haitao Huang

Affiliation Jiangsu Institute of Clinical Immunology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, People's Republic of China

Guangbo Zhang

Affiliation Jiangsu Institute of Clinical Immunology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, People's Republic of China

Fengming Wang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Institute of Medical Biotechnology, Soochow University, Suzhou, People's Republic of China

Jing Sun

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Institute of Medical Biotechnology, Soochow University, Suzhou, People's Republic of China

Qianting Yang

Affiliation Shenzhen Clinical Center for Infectious Diseases, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China

Xueguang Zhang

binfeng@pitt.edu (BL); xueguangzh@yahoo.com.cn (XZ)

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Institute of Medical Biotechnology, Soochow University, Suzhou, People's Republic of China, Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Stem Cell Research, Soochow University, Suzhou, People's Republic of China

Binfeng Lu

binfeng@pitt.edu (BL); xueguangzh@yahoo.com.cn (XZ)

Affiliations Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XZ BL. Performed the experiments: XG YZ GL HH GZ FW JS QY. Analyzed the data: XG YZ XZ BL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XG YZ GL HH. Wrote the paper: XG YZ XZ BL.