About the Authors

Xiaojuan Chen

x-chen@northwestern.edu

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Comprehensive Transplantation Center, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Courtney S. Larson

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Jason West

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Xiaomin Zhang

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Comprehensive Transplantation Center, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Dixon B. Kaufman

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Comprehensive Transplantation Center, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XC. Performed the experiments: CSL JW XZ. Analyzed the data: XC CSL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DBK. Wrote the paper: XC.