About the Authors

Ping Fang

Affiliations Respiratory Department, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Xi’an Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Li Zhou

Current address: Wuhan University School of Medicine, Wuhan, China

Affiliation Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Yuqi Zhou

Current address: Zhongshan School of Medicine, SYSU, Guangzhou, China

Affiliation Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jay K. Kolls

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Tao Zheng

Current address: Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Zhou Zhu

zhou.zhu@yale.edu

Current address: Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZZ PF. Performed the experiments: PF LZ YQZ TZ. Analyzed the data: PF LZ YQZ TZ ZZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JK TZ. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: PF JK ZZ.