About the Authors

Maria Letizia Giardino Torchia

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Letizia Giardino Torchia, Dietrich B. Conze

Affiliation Laboratory of Immune Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Dietrich B. Conze

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Letizia Giardino Torchia, Dietrich B. Conze

Current address: Spherix Consulting, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Laboratory of Immune Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jonathan D. Ashwell

jda@pop.nci.nih.gov

Affiliation Laboratory of Immune Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, 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: MLGT DBC JDA. Performed the experiments: MLGT DBC. Analyzed the data: MLGT DBC JDA. Wrote the paper: MLGT DBC JDA.