About the Authors

Sheng Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Sheng Guo, Chengying Yang

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, PLA, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Chengying Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Sheng Guo, Chengying Yang

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, PLA, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Bo Diao

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, PLA, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Xiaoyong Huang

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, PLA, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Meihua Jin

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Yanbian University, Yanji, Jilin province, China

Lili Chen

Affiliation Department of Basic Medicine, Yanbian University, Yanji, Jilin province, China

Weiming Yan

Affiliation Department and Institute of Infectious Disease, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Qin Ning

Affiliation Department and Institute of Infectious Disease, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Lixin Zheng

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yuzhang Wu

wuyuzhang@tmmu.edu.cn (YW); yongwench@163.com (YC)

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, PLA, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Yongwen Chen

wuyuzhang@tmmu.edu.cn (YW); yongwench@163.com (YC)

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, PLA, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG CY. Performed the experiments: SG MJ LC YC BD XH. Analyzed the data: YW LZ CY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WY QN. Wrote the paper: YC LZ YW.