About the Authors

Yeonseok Chung

Yeonseok.Chung@uth.tmc.edu (YC); cdong@mdanderson.org (CD)

Affiliations Department of Immunology and Center for Inflammation and Cancer, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Immunology and Autoimmune Diseases, Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Tomohide Yamazaki

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Center for Inflammation and Cancer, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Byung-Seok Kim

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Center for Inflammation and Cancer, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yongliang Zhang

Current address: Department of Microbiology, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Center for Inflammation and Cancer, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Joseph M. Reynolds

Current address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Center for Inflammation and Cancer, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Gustavo J. Martinez

Affiliations Department of Immunology and Center for Inflammation and Cancer, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Seon Hee Chang

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Center for Inflammation and Cancer, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Hoyong Lim

Affiliation Center for Immunology and Autoimmune Diseases, Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Mark Birkenbach

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Section of Rheumatology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Chen Dong

Yeonseok.Chung@uth.tmc.edu (YC); cdong@mdanderson.org (CD)

Affiliations Department of Immunology and Center for Inflammation and Cancer, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YC CD. Performed the experiments: YC TY BSK YZ JMR GJM SHC HL. Analyzed the data: YC BSK YZ CD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB. Wrote the paper: YC CD.