About the Authors

Liangyi Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Liangyi Zhou, Guoyao Zang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Surgery, Medicine, and Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Guoyao Zang

Contributed equally to this work with: Liangyi Zhou, Guoyao Zang

Affiliation Sir Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Guangfeng Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Surgery, Medicine, and Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Hansong Wang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Surgery, Medicine, and Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Xusheng Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Surgery, Medicine, and Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Nathan Johnston

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Surgery, Medicine, and Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Weiping Min

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Surgery, Medicine, and Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Lawson Health Research Institute, London Ontario, Canada, Multiple Organ Transplant Program, London Ontario, Canada

Patrick Luke

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Surgery, Medicine, and Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Multiple Organ Transplant Program, London Ontario, Canada

Anthony Jevnikar

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Surgery, Medicine, and Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Lawson Health Research Institute, London Ontario, Canada, Multiple Organ Transplant Program, London Ontario, Canada

Aaron Haig

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Surgery, Medicine, and Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Xiufen Zheng

xzheng26@uwo.ca

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Surgery, Medicine, and Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Lawson Health Research Institute, London Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XFZ. Performed the experiments: LZ G. Zang G. Zhang HW XSZ NJ AH XFZ. Analyzed the data: LZ G. Zang HW XFZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XFZ WM PL AJ. Wrote the paper: LZ G. Zang HW WM XFZ.