About the Authors

Jia-ning Cao

Affiliation Division of Basic and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Anshu Agrawal

Affiliation Division of Basic and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Edward Sharman

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Zhenyu Jia

Affiliations Department of Statistics, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, Ohio, United States of America, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Sudhir Gupta

sgupta@uci.edu

Affiliation Division of Basic and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JNC AA SG. Performed the experiments: JNC AA. Analyzed the data: JNC ES ZYJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AA SG. Wrote the paper: JNC AA.