About the Authors

Gongguan Liu

Affiliation Division of Immunology, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Jinjun Xu

Affiliation Division of Immunology, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Hui Wu

Current address: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Affiliation Division of Immunology, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Donglei Sun

Affiliation Division of Immunology, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Xiquan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

Xiaoping Zhu

Affiliation Division of Immunology, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Stefan Magez

Affiliations Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Brussels, Belgium, Structural Biology Research Centre, VIB, Brussels, Belgium

Meiqing Shi

mshi@umd.edu

Affiliation Division of Immunology, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GL MS. Performed the experiments: GL JX HW DS. Analyzed the data: GL XZha XZhu SM MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GL XZhu SM MS. Wrote the paper: GL XZhu SM MS.