About the Authors

Xuehai Wang

Affiliation Laboratoire d’Immunologie, Centre de Recherche, Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM) – Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Martin Marcinkiewicz

Affiliation Cytochem Inc., Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Yaned Gatain

Affiliation Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Research Centre (GCRC), McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Maxime Bouchard

Affiliation Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Research Centre (GCRC), McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Jianning Mao

Affiliation Laboratoire d’Immunologie, Centre de Recherche, Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM) – Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Michel Tremblay

Affiliation Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Research Centre (GCRC), McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Noriko Uetani

Affiliation Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Research Centre (GCRC), McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Silva Hanissian

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Shijie Qi

Affiliation Laboratoire d’Immunologie, Centre de Recherche, Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM) – Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Jiangping Wu

Affiliations Laboratoire d’Immunologie, Centre de Recherche, Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM) – Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Service de Nephrologie, Centre de Recherche, Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM) – Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Hongyu Luo

hongyu.luo@umontreal.ca

Affiliation Laboratoire d’Immunologie, Centre de Recherche, Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM) – Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

Dr. MM is affiliated with Cytochem Inc. 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: XW MB MT NU JW HL. Performed the experiments: XW MM YG JM SQ. Analyzed the data: XW MM YG JM JW HL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH. Wrote the paper: XW JW HL.