About the Authors

Ling Shao

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Shigeru Oshima

Affiliation Department of Advanced Therapeutics in Gastrointestinal Disease, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Bao Duong

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Rommel Advincula

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Julio Barrera

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Barbara A. Malynn

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Averil Ma

averil.ma@ucsf.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LS SO BD BAM AM. Performed the experiments: LS SO BD RA JAB. Analyzed the data: LS SO BD BAM AM. Wrote the paper: LS AM.