About the Authors

Xiaoqin Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoqin Guo, Xingwei Jiang

Affiliations Department of Molecular Immunology, Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China, Department of Immunology, Logistics College of Chinese People’s Armed Police Forces, Tianjin, China

Xingwei Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoqin Guo, Xingwei Jiang

Affiliation Department of Molecular Immunology, Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Yan Xiao

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of the Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Tingting Zhou

Affiliation Department of Molecular Immunology, Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Yueling Guo

Affiliation Department of Medical Engineering, Military General Hospital of Beijing PLA, Beijing, China

Renxi Wang

Affiliation Department of Molecular Immunology, Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Zhi Zhao

Affiliation Department of Molecular Immunology, Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

He Xiao

Affiliation Department of Molecular Immunology, Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Chunmei Hou

Affiliation Department of Molecular Immunology, Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Lingyun Ma

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of the Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Yanhua Lin

Affiliation Department of Molecular Immunology, Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Xiaoling Lang

Affiliation Department of Molecular Immunology, Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Jiannan Feng

Affiliation Department of Molecular Immunology, Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Guojiang Chen

genchenghan@163.com (GH); guogangch@yahoo.com (GC)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Immunology, Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Beifen Shen

Affiliation Department of Molecular Immunology, Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Gencheng Han

genchenghan@163.com (GH); guogangch@yahoo.com (GC)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Immunology, Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Yan Li

Affiliation Department of Molecular Immunology, Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GH Y. Li GC BS. Performed the experiments: XG XJ YX Y. Lin. Analyzed the data: JF XL TZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LM CH HX ZZ. Wrote the paper: GH. Obtained the permission for use of clinical samples: YG. Discussed the manuscript: RW.