About the Authors

Ying Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Ma, Bin Yuan, Ran Zhuang

immu_jin@fmmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Immunology, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Bin Yuan

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Ma, Bin Yuan, Ran Zhuang

Affiliation Institute of Orthopaedics of Xijing Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Ran Zhuang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Ma, Bin Yuan, Ran Zhuang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Yusi Zhang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Bei Liu

Affiliation Department of Immunology, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Chunmei Zhang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Yun Zhang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Haitao Yu

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases of Tangdu Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Jing Yi

Affiliation Department of Immunology, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Angang Yang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Boquan Jin

immu_jin@fmmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Immunology, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BJ YM RZ YunZ. Performed the experiments: YM BY YusZ BL CZ. Analyzed the data: YM BY RZ BJ YunZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YusZ BL CZ HY JY. Wrote the paper: YM BY RZ BJ AY.