About the Authors

Monica Guma

Contributed equally to this work with: Monica Guma, Yun Wang

mguma@ucsd.edu (MG); ruliu@ucsd.edu (RLB)

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, UC San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Yun Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Monica Guma, Yun Wang

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, UC San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Benoit Viollet

Affiliations INSERM, U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris, France, CNRS, UMR8104, Paris, France, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France

Ru Liu-Bryan

mguma@ucsd.edu (MG); ruliu@ucsd.edu (RLB)

Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, UC San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States of America, VA San Diego Healthcare System, 3350 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MG RLB. Performed the experiments: MG YW. Analyzed the data: MG YW RLB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BV. Wrote the paper: MG RLB.