About the Authors

Rongze Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Rongze Lu, Hao Pan

Current address: Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliations City of Hope Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Duarte, California, United States of America, Department of Immunology, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Hao Pan

Contributed equally to this work with: Rongze Lu, Hao Pan

Current address: Nexelcom Bioscience LLC, Lawrence, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliations City of Hope Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Duarte, California, United States of America, Department of Immunology, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

John E. Shively

JShively@coh.org

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HP RL. JES supervised the project. Performed the experiments: HP RL. Analyzed the data: HP RL. Data analysis was supervised by JES. Wrote the paper: HP RL. The manuscript was edited by JES.