About the Authors

Bei Liu

liube@musc.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Matthew Staron

Current address: Department of Immunobiology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Zihai Li

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BL ZL. Performed the experiments: BL MS. Analyzed the data: BL ZL. Wrote the paper: BL ZL.