About the Authors

Byung Ha Chung

Contributed equally to this work with: Byung Ha Chung, Kyoung Woon Kim

Affiliations Convergent Research Consortium for Immunologic Disease, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Transplant Research Center, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Kyoung Woon Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Byung Ha Chung, Kyoung Woon Kim

Affiliation Convergent Research Consortium for Immunologic Disease, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Bo-Mi Kim

Affiliation Convergent Research Consortium for Immunologic Disease, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Shang Guo Piao

Affiliations Convergent Research Consortium for Immunologic Disease, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Transplant Research Center, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Sun Woo Lim

Affiliations Convergent Research Consortium for Immunologic Disease, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Transplant Research Center, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Bum Soon Choi

Affiliations Transplant Research Center, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Cheol Whee Park

Affiliations Transplant Research Center, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Yong-Soo Kim

Affiliations Transplant Research Center, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Mi-La Cho

iammila@catholic.ac.kr (MLC); yangch@catholic.ac.kr (CWY)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Convergent Research Consortium for Immunologic Disease, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Chul Woo Yang

iammila@catholic.ac.kr (MLC); yangch@catholic.ac.kr (CWY)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Convergent Research Consortium for Immunologic Disease, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Transplant Research Center, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CWY MLC. Performed the experiments: KWK BMK. Analyzed the data: BSC CWP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SGP SWL YSK. Wrote the paper: BHC.