About the Authors

Qinghong Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qinghong Wang, Jijun Zhou, Bei Zhang

Affiliations Institute of Immunology, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Pediatric Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China

Jijun Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Qinghong Wang, Jijun Zhou, Bei Zhang

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Southwestern Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China

Bei Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qinghong Wang, Jijun Zhou, Bei Zhang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Medical College of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People′s Republic of China

Zhiqiang Tian

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China

Jun Tang

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China

Yanhua Zheng

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China

Zemin Huang

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China

Yi Tian

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China

Zhengcai Jia

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China

Yan Tang

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China

Jennifer C. van Velkinburgh

Affiliation van Velkinburgh Initiative for Collaboratory Biomedical Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Qing Mao

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Southwestern Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China

Xiuwu Bian

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Southwestern Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China

Yifang Ping

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Southwestern Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China

Bing Ni

nibingxi@yahoo.com (BN); wuyuzhang@yahoo.com (YW)

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China

Yuzhang Wu

nibingxi@yahoo.com (BN); wuyuzhang@yahoo.com (YW)

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have no conflict of interests to declare.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Y. Wu, B. Ni. Performed the experiments: Q. Wang, J. Zhou, B. Zhang, Y. Tian, Z. Tian, Z. Jia, J. Tang, Y. Tang, Z. Huang, X. Bian, Y. Ping. Analyzed the data: Y. Zheng. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Q. Mao. Wrote the paper: J. Velkinburgh.