About the Authors

Ning Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Ning Ma, Chen Xing, He Xiao

Affiliations Laboratory of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China, Department of Rheumatology, First hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China

Chen Xing

Contributed equally to this work with: Ning Ma, Chen Xing, He Xiao

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

He Xiao

Contributed equally to this work with: Ning Ma, Chen Xing, He Xiao

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Yi Wang

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Ke Wang

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Chunmei Hou

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Gencheng Han

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Guojiang Chen

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Bernadette Marrero

Affiliation Molecular Immunology Section, Laboratory of Immunology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yujuan Wang

Affiliation Immunopathology Section, Laboratory of Immunology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Beifen Shen

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Yan Li

wang_renxi@yahoo.com (RW); liyan62033@yahoo.com.cn (YL)

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Renxi Wang

wang_renxi@yahoo.com (RW); liyan62033@yahoo.com.cn (YL)

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL RW. Performed the experiments: NM CX HX Yi Wang KW CH. Analyzed the data: YL RW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GH GC BS YL. Wrote the paper: RW BM Yujuan Wang.