About the Authors

William E. Jenkinson

w.e.jenkinson@bham.ac.uk (WEJ); g.anderson@bham.ac.uk (GA)

Affiliation Medical Research Council Centre for Immune Regulation, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Kyoko Nakamura

Affiliation Medical Research Council Centre for Immune Regulation, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Andrea J. White

Affiliation Medical Research Council Centre for Immune Regulation, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Eric J. Jenkinson

Affiliation Medical Research Council Centre for Immune Regulation, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Graham Anderson

w.e.jenkinson@bham.ac.uk (WEJ); g.anderson@bham.ac.uk (GA)

Affiliation Medical Research Council Centre for Immune Regulation, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WJ EJ GA. Performed the experiments: WJ KN AW. Analyzed the data: WJ AW GA. Wrote the paper: WJ EJ GA.