About the Authors
- John A. Mengshol
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Denver, Colorado, United States of America
- Lucy Golden-Mason
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Division of Clinical Immunology, University of Colorado School of Medicine and National Jewish Hospital, Denver, Colorado, United States of America
- Tomohiro Arikawa
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Affiliation Department of Immunology and Immunopathology, Kagawa Medical University, Kagawa, Japan
- Maxwell Smith
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado, United States of America
- Toshiro Niki
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Affiliation GalPharma, Kagawa, Japan
- Ryan McWilliams
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
- Jessica A. Randall
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
- Rachel McMahan
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
- Michael A. Zimmerman
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Affiliation Division of Transplant Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
- Manu Rangachari
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Affiliation Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Evgenia Dobrinskikh
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
- Pierre Busson
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Affiliation Institut de Cancérologie Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
- Stephen J. Polyak
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Affiliation Division of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Mitsuomi Hirashima
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Affiliation Department of Immunology and Immunopathology, Kagawa Medical University, Kagawa, Japan
- Hugo R. Rosen
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* E-mail: Hugo.Rosen@ucdenver.edu
Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Denver, Colorado, United States of America, Division of Clinical Immunology, University of Colorado School of Medicine and National Jewish Hospital, Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Competing Interests
Dr. Niki works for GalPharma and supplied antibodies for this study. This does not alter adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JAM LGM TA MS RM MZ SJP MH HRR. Performed the experiments: JAM LGM TA MS TN RM JAR RM ED SJP MH. Analyzed the data: JAM LGM TA MS RM JAR RM MR ED PB SJP MH HRR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JAM LGM TA MS TN RM MZ MR ED PB SJP MH. Wrote the paper: JAM LGM RM HRR.