About the Authors

Claudia C. Preston

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Matthew J. Maurer

Affiliation Department of Health Science Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Ann L. Oberg

Affiliation Department of Health Science Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Daniel W. Visscher

Affiliation Division of Anatomic Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Kimberly R. Kalli

Affiliation Division of Medical Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Lynn C. Hartmann

Affiliation Division of Anatomic Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Ellen L. Goode

Contributed equally to this work with: Ellen L. Goode, Keith L. Knutson

egoode@mayo.edu (ELG); kknutson@vgtifl.org (KLK)

ELG and KLK are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Health Science Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Keith L. Knutson

Contributed equally to this work with: Ellen L. Goode, Keith L. Knutson

egoode@mayo.edu (ELG); kknutson@vgtifl.org (KLK)

ELG and KLK are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Port St. Lucie, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MJM, ALO, KRK, LCH, ELG, KLK. Performed the experiments: CCP, DWV. Analyzed the data: CCP, MJM, ALO, DWV, KRK, LCH, ELG, KLK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KRK, LCH, ELG, KLK. Wrote the manuscript: CCP, MJM, KRK, LCH, ELG, KLK.