About the Authors

Daqi Xu

Affiliation Center for Integrated Immunology and Vaccine Research, Department of Immunology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

Han-Hsuan Fu

Affiliation Center for Integrated Immunology and Vaccine Research, Department of Immunology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

Joshua J. Obar

Affiliations Center for Integrated Immunology and Vaccine Research, Department of Immunology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Jang-June Park

Affiliation Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Koji Tamada

Affiliation Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Hideo Yagita

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Leo Lefrançois

llefranc@neuron.uchc.edu

Affiliation Center for Integrated Immunology and Vaccine Research, Department of Immunology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LL JO DX. Performed the experiments: DX HF. Analyzed the data: DX HF JO LL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JJP KT HY. Wrote the paper: DX LL JO.