About the Authors

Arlet Minassian

Contributed equally to this work with: Arlet Minassian, Junjie Zhang

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Junjie Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Arlet Minassian, Junjie Zhang

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Shanping He

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jun Zhao

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ebrahim Zandi

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Takeshi Saito

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Chengyu Liang

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Pinghui Feng

pinghui.feng@usc.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM JZhao PF. Performed the experiments: AM JZhao SH PF. Analyzed the data: AM JZhan SH EZ CL PF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM JZhan JZhao TS PF. Wrote the paper: AM JZhan PF.