About the Authors

Li Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Zhang, Ruijing Xiao

Affiliation Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Ruijing Xiao

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Zhang, Ruijing Xiao

Affiliation Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Jie Xiong

Affiliation Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Jun Leng

Affiliation Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Altaf Ehtisham

Affiliation Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Yi Hu

Affiliation Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Qianshan Ding

Affiliation Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Hui Xu

Affiliation Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Shengwu Liu

Affiliation Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Jin Wang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Dean G. Tang

Affiliation Department of Molecular Carcinogenesis, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, Texas, United States of America

Qiuping Zhang

qpzhang@whu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QZ DGT. Performed the experiments: LZ RX. Analyzed the data: LZ RX JX JL AE YH QD HX SL JW DGT QZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JX AE YH QD HX SL JW. Wrote the paper: LZ RX DGT QZ.