About the Authors

Allison Sang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Ying-Yi Zheng

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Yiming Yin

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Igor Dozmorov

Affiliation Department of Immunology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Hao Li

Affiliation Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Hui-Chen Hsu

Affiliation Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

John D. Mountz

Affiliation Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Laurence Morel

morel@ufl.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HCH JDM LM. Performed the experiments: AS YYZ HL HCH. Analyzed the data: AS YYZ ID HL HCH LM. Wrote the paper: AS HCH JDM LM.