About the Authors

Ke Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ke Wang, Gencheng Han, Yan Dou

Affiliations Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, P. R. China, Department of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Gencheng Han

Contributed equally to this work with: Ke Wang, Gencheng Han, Yan Dou

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Yan Dou

Contributed equally to this work with: Ke Wang, Gencheng Han, Yan Dou

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, General Hospital of PLA, Beijing, P. R. China

Yi Wang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Guijun Liu

Affiliation Center of Molecular Biology, Inner Mongolia Medical College, Hohhot, P. R. China

Renxi Wang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

He Xiao

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Xinying Li

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Chunmei Hou

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Beifen Shen

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Renfeng Guo

Affiliation InflaRx GmbH, Jena, Germany

Yan Li

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Yanchun Shi

guogangch@yahoo.com (GC); ycshi5388@yahoo.com.cn (YS)

Affiliation Center of Molecular Biology, Inner Mongolia Medical College, Hohhot, P. R. China

Guojiang Chen

guogangch@yahoo.com (GC); ycshi5388@yahoo.com.cn (YS)

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests. Renfeng Guo is an employee of InflaRx GmbH. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GC YS. Performed the experiments: YW GH YD YW GL. Analyzed the data: RW HX BS RG YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XL CH. Wrote the paper: KW YC GC.