About the Authors

Haiyan S. Li

haiyanli@mdanderson.org (HSL); swatowic@mdanderson.org (SSW)

Affiliation Department of Immunology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Nathaniel Greeley

Affiliations Department of Immunology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Naoshi Sugimoto

Affiliation Baylor Institute for Immunology Research, Baylor Research Institute, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Yong-Jun Liu

Affiliations Department of Immunology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Baylor Institute for Immunology Research, Baylor Research Institute, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Stephanie S. Watowich

haiyanli@mdanderson.org (HSL); swatowic@mdanderson.org (SSW)

Affiliations Department of Immunology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HSL. Performed the experiments: HSL NG NS. Analyzed the data: HSL SSW YJL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HSL SSW NS YJL. Wrote the paper: HSL SSW.