About the Authors

Richard Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Richard Yu, Raewyn Broady

Affiliations Institute of Dermatology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Department of Dermatology and Skin Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Raewyn Broady

Contributed equally to this work with: Richard Yu, Raewyn Broady

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Yuanshen Huang

Affiliation Department of Dermatology and Skin Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Yang Wang

Affiliation Department of Dermatology and Skin Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Jie Yu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Min Gao

Affiliation Institute of Dermatology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Megan Levings

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Shencai Wei

Affiliation Department of Dermatology and Skin Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Shengquan Zhang

Affiliations Institute of Dermatology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Department of Dermatology and Skin Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Aie Xu

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, The Third People's Hospital, Hangzhou, China

Mingwan Su

Affiliation Department of Dermatology and Skin Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Jan Dutz

dutz@interchange.ubc.ca (JD); ayzxj@vip.sina.com (XZ); ywzhou@interchange.ubc.ca (YZ)

Affiliations Department of Dermatology and Skin Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Skin Tumor Group, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada

Xuejun Zhang

dutz@interchange.ubc.ca (JD); ayzxj@vip.sina.com (XZ); ywzhou@interchange.ubc.ca (YZ)

Affiliation Institute of Dermatology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Youwen Zhou

dutz@interchange.ubc.ca (JD); ayzxj@vip.sina.com (XZ); ywzhou@interchange.ubc.ca (YZ)

Affiliations Institute of Dermatology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Department of Dermatology and Skin Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Skin Tumor Group, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada

Competing Interests

This work was in part supported by funding from Astellas Pharma Research Competition, Canada. However, this does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RY YZ MS XZ. Performed the experiments: RY RB JY SW SZ MS. Analyzed the data: MS RY YH YW MG YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RB ML JD XZ YZ AX. Wrote the paper: RY YZ.