About the Authors

Horng-Tay Tzeng

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Immunology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Hwei-Fang Tsai

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Hsiu-Jung Liao

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Immunology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yi-Jiun Lin

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Lieping Chen

Affiliation Cancer Immunology Program at Yale Cancer Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Pei-Jer Chen

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Ping-Ning Hsu

phsu8635@ntu.edu.tw

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Immunology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PNH PJC. Performed the experiments: HTT HFT HJL YJL. Analyzed the data: PJC HFT PNH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LC HFT. Wrote the paper: HTT PNH.