About the Authors

Na Yin

JBromberg@smail.umaryland.edu (JSB); NYin@som.umaryland.edu (NY);

Affiliation Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Nan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

Girdhari Lal

Affiliations Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Departments of Surgery and Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jiangnan Xu

Affiliations Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Departments of Surgery and Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Minhong Yan

Affiliation Department of Tumor Biology and Angiogenesis, Division of Research, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Yaozhong Ding

Affiliations Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Departments of Surgery and Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jonathan S. Bromberg

JBromberg@smail.umaryland.edu (JSB); NYin@som.umaryland.edu (NY);

Affiliations Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Departments of Surgery and Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts. MY is employed by Genetech Inc. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all of the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NY JSB. Performed the experiments: NY NZ GL JX. Analyzed the data: NY YD JSB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MY. Wrote the paper: NY JSB.