About the Authors

Linya Wang

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

Yongjun Tian

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

Jing-hsiung James Ou

jamesou@hsc.usc.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, 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: LW JHJO. Performed the experiments: LW YT. Analyzed the data: LW YT JHJO. Wrote the paper: LW JHJO.