About the Authors
- Saad Yousuf
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Contributed equally to this work with: Saad Yousuf, MeiLi Duan
Affiliation Department of Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital and The Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
- MeiLi Duan
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Contributed equally to this work with: Saad Yousuf, MeiLi Duan
Affiliations Department of Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital and The Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- Erika L. Moen
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital and The Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
- Sam Cross-Knorr
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital and The Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
- Kate Brilliant
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital and The Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
- Benjamin Bonavida
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Theresa LaValle
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Affiliation Kolltan Pharmaceuticals, Inc., New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Kam C. Yeung
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Biology, University of Toledo, College of Medicine, Toledo, Ohio, United States of America
- Fahd Al-Mulla
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait
- Eugene Chin
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Affiliation Department of Surgical Research, Rhode Island Hospital and The Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
- Devasis Chatterjee
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* E-mail: Devasis_Chatterjee@brown.edu
Affiliation Department of Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital and The Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors declare that previous affiliation to MedImmune and current affiliation to Kolltan, Inc. does not alter their adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DC EC KCY. Performed the experiments: DC SY MD ELM SC-K KB. Analyzed the data: DC SY ELM SK-C KB KCY EC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KY BB TL EC. Wrote the paper: DC EC BB FA.