About the Authors
- Hongmei Zhao
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hongmei Zhao, Jozsef Karman
Affiliation Genzyme, a Sanofi Company, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Jozsef Karman
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hongmei Zhao, Jozsef Karman
Affiliation Genzyme, a Sanofi Company, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Ji-Lei Jiang
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Affiliation Genzyme, a Sanofi Company, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Jinhua Zhang
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Current address: Livzon Mabpharm, Inc., Guangdong, P. R. China
Affiliation Genzyme, a Sanofi Company, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Nathan Gumlaw
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Affiliation Genzyme, a Sanofi Company, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- John Lydon
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Affiliation Genzyme, a Sanofi Company, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Qun Zhou
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Affiliation Genzyme, a Sanofi Company, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Huawei Qiu
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Affiliation Genzyme, a Sanofi Company, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Canwen Jiang
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Current address: Alcon Research, Ltd., Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America
Affiliation Genzyme, a Sanofi Company, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Seng H. Cheng
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Affiliation Genzyme, a Sanofi Company, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Yunxiang Zhu
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* E-mail: yunxiang.zhu@genzyme.com
Affiliation Genzyme, a Sanofi Company, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
All authors were employees of Genzyme, a Sanofi Company when the work was performed. Some of the employees are also shareholders of the company. This work is also part of a patent application titled “INHIBITORS OF T-CELL ACTIVATION” (International Application No: PCT/US2012/045017). CJ is now an employee of Alcon Research. Ltd., and JZ is an employee of Livzon Mabpharm. However, this does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: YXZ HMZ JK HWQ QZ CWJ SHC. Performed the experiments: HMZ JK JLJ JHZ NG JL QZ HWQ. Analyzed the data: YXZ JK HMZ QZ HWQ. Wrote the paper: YXZ JK SHC.