About the Authors

Xiaoqian Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoqian Yu, Yuhua Wang

Affiliations The Forsyth Institute, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Peking University School and Hospital of Stomatology, Department of Periodontology, Beijing, China

Yuhua Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoqian Yu, Yuhua Wang

Affiliations The Forsyth Institute, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Ninth People’s Hospital, College of Stomatology, Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, Department of Prosthodontics, Shanghai Key laboratory, Shanghai, China

Jiang Lin

Affiliations The Forsyth Institute, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, The Fourth Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Department of stomatology, Harbin, China

Yang Hu

Affiliation The Forsyth Institute, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Toshihisa Kawai

Affiliation The Forsyth Institute, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Martin A. Taubman

Affiliation The Forsyth Institute, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Xiaozhe Han

Xhan@forsyth.org

Affiliation The Forsyth Institute, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: XY YH XH. Data curation: XY YH XH. Formal analysis: XY YH. Funding acquisition: XH. Investigation: XY YH XH. Methodology: XY YW JL. Project administration: XY YW JL. Resources: TK MT XH. Supervision: TK MT XH. Validation: XY YH. Visualization: YH XH. Writing – original draft: XY YH XH. Writing – review & editing: YH XH.