About the Authors

Zhirong Mou

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Dong Liu

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Ifeoma Okwor

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Ping Jia

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Kanami Orihara

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Jude Ezeh Uzonna

jude.uzonna@med.umanitoba.ca

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZM JEU. Performed the experiments: ZM DL IO PJ KO. Analyzed the data: ZM KO JEU. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IO KO. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: ZM JEU.