About the Authors

Ali Xiong

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Lihua Duan

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Jie Chen

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Zhigang Fan

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Fang Zheng

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Zheng Tan

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Feili Gong

minfang89@mail.hust.edu.cn (MF); flgong@163.com (FG)

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Key Laboratory of Organ Transplantation, Ministry of Education, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Key Laboratory of Organ Transplantation, Ministry of Health, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Min Fang

minfang89@mail.hust.edu.cn (MF); flgong@163.com (FG)

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Key Laboratory of Organ Transplantation, Ministry of Education, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Key Laboratory of Organ Transplantation, Ministry of Health, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AX MF FG. Performed the experiments: AX LD JC. Analyzed the data: AX MF ZF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FZ ZT. Wrote the paper: AX MF FG.