About the Authors

Hao Hong

Affiliation Department of Cancer Immunotherapeutics & Tumor Immunology and Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Christine E. Brown

Affiliation Department of Cancer Immunotherapeutics & Tumor Immunology and Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Julie R. Ostberg

Affiliation Department of Cancer Immunotherapeutics & Tumor Immunology and Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Saul J. Priceman

Affiliation Department of Cancer Immunotherapeutics & Tumor Immunology and Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Wen-Chung Chang

Affiliation Department of Cancer Immunotherapeutics & Tumor Immunology and Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Lihong Weng

Affiliation Department of Cancer Immunotherapeutics & Tumor Immunology and Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Paul Lin

Affiliation Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Mark T. Wakabayashi

Affiliation Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Michael C. Jensen

michael.jensen@seattlechildrens.org (MCJ); sforman@coh.org (SJF)

Affiliation Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Stephen J. Forman

michael.jensen@seattlechildrens.org (MCJ); sforman@coh.org (SJF)

Affiliation Department of Cancer Immunotherapeutics & Tumor Immunology and Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

MCJ reports receiving commercial research support from, has ownership interest (including patents) in, and is a consultant/advisory board member for Juno Therapeutics, Inc. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All other authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HH CEB WCC LW MCJ SJF. Performed the experiments: HH. Analyzed the data: HH CEB JRO MCJ SJF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WCC PL MTW. Wrote the paper: HH CEB JRO SJP SJF.