About the Authors

Xuehai Wang

Affiliation Laboratoire d’immunologie, Centre de recherche, Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM)-Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Tao Wu

Affiliations Laboratoire d’immunologie, Centre de recherche, Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM)-Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Institute of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University Medical College, Hangzhou, China

Yan Hu

Affiliation Laboratoire d’immunologie, Centre de recherche, Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM)-Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Martin Marcinkiewicz

Affiliation Cytochem Inc, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Shijie Qi

Affiliation Laboratoire d’immunologie, Centre de recherche, Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM)-Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Hector Valderrama-Carvajal

Current address: Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología del Distrito Federal, Mexico D.F., México

Affiliation Laboratoire d’immunologie, Centre de recherche, Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM)-Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Hongyu Luo

Affiliation Laboratoire d’immunologie, Centre de recherche, Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM)-Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Jiangping Wu

jianping.wu@umontreal.ca

Affiliations Laboratoire d’immunologie, Centre de recherche, Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM)-Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Service de nephrologie, Centre de recherche, Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM)-Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

Martin Marcinkiewicz is affiliated with Cytochem Inc, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XW HL JW. Performed the experiments: XW TW YH MM SQ HV HL. Analyzed the data: XW TW YH MM HV HL. Wrote the paper: XW JW.