About the Authors

Jing Jin

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

Binqing Fu

Affiliations Institute of Immunology, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

Xinyu Mei

Affiliation Anhui Provincial Hospital, Hefei, Anhui, China

Ting Yue

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

Rui Sun

Affiliations Institute of Immunology, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

Zhigang Tian

ustcwhm@ustc.edu.cn (HW); tzg@ustc.edu.cn (ZT)

Affiliations Institute of Immunology, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

Haiming Wei

ustcwhm@ustc.edu.cn (HW); tzg@ustc.edu.cn (ZT)

Affiliations Institute of Immunology, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Obtained permission for the use of clinical samples: XM. Conceived and designed the experiments: HW ZT JJ. Performed the experiments: JJ TY. Analyzed the data: HW JJ ZT BF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RS XM. Wrote the paper: JJ HW BF.