About the Authors

Wei Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Lu, Junhui Sun, Jeong Seon Yoon

Affiliation Molecular Development of the Immune System Section, Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Junhui Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Lu, Junhui Sun, Jeong Seon Yoon

Affiliation Systems Biology Center,National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jeong Seon Yoon

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Lu, Junhui Sun, Jeong Seon Yoon

Affiliation Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Section, Laboratory of Neuroscience, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Yan Zhang

Affiliation Molecular Mechanism of Apoptosis Section, Cell and Cancer Biology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Lixin Zheng

Affiliation Molecular Development of the Immune System Section, Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Elizabeth Murphy

Affiliation Systems Biology Center,National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Mark P. Mattson

Affiliation Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Section, Laboratory of Neuroscience, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Michael J. Lenardo

lenardo@nih.gov

Affiliation Molecular Development of the Immune System Section, Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WL EM MPM MJL. Performed the experiments: WL JS JSY YZ LZ. Analyzed the data: WL JS JSY EM MPM MJL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WL JS JSY. Wrote the paper: WL MJL.