About the Authors

Satoko Matsueda

Contributed equally to this work with: Satoko Matsueda, Mingjun Wang

Affiliation Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Mingjun Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Satoko Matsueda, Mingjun Wang

Affiliations Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Inflammation and Epigenetics, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jinsheng Weng

Affiliation Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ying Li

Affiliation Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Bingnan Yin

Affiliation Center for Inflammation and Epigenetics, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jia Zou

Affiliations Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Inflammation and Epigenetics, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Qingtian Li

Affiliations Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Inflammation and Epigenetics, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Wei Zhao

Affiliations Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Inflammation and Epigenetics, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Weiyi Peng

Affiliation Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Xavier Legras

Affiliation Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Christopher Loo

Affiliation Center for Inflammation and Epigenetics, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Rong-Fu Wang

Affiliations Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Inflammation and Epigenetics, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

Helen Y. Wang

ywang4@tmhs.org

Affiliations Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Inflammation and Epigenetics, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SM MW RFW HYW. Performed the experiments: SM MW JW YL BY JZ QL WZ WP XL CL. Analyzed the data: SM MW RFW HYW. Wrote the paper: SM MW RFW HYW.