About the Authors

Mingjun Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Mingjun Wang, Bingnan Yin, Satoko Matsueda

Affiliations Center for Inflammation and Epigenetics, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Bingnan Yin

Contributed equally to this work with: Mingjun Wang, Bingnan Yin, Satoko Matsueda

Affiliation Center for Inflammation and Epigenetics, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Satoko Matsueda

Contributed equally to this work with: Mingjun Wang, Bingnan Yin, Satoko Matsueda

Affiliation Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Lijuan Deng

Affiliation Center for Inflammation and Epigenetics, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ying Li

Affiliation Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Wei Zhao

Affiliation Center for Inflammation and Epigenetics, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jia Zou

Affiliation Center for Inflammation and Epigenetics, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Qingtian Li

Affiliation Center for Inflammation and Epigenetics, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Christopher Loo

Affiliation Center for Inflammation and Epigenetics, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Rong-Fu Wang

Affiliations Center for Inflammation and Epigenetics, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Helen Y. Wang

ywang4@tmhs.org

Affiliations Center for Inflammation and Epigenetics, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MW BY SM RFW HYW. Performed the experiments: MW BY SM LD YL WZ JZ QL CL. Analyzed the data: MW SM RFW HYW. Wrote the paper: MW RFW HYW.