About the Authors

Wan Wang

Affiliation Centre for Asthma and Respiratory Disease, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia

Philip M. Hansbro

Affiliation Centre for Asthma and Respiratory Disease, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia

Paul S. Foster

Ming.Yang@newcastle.edu.au (MY); Paul.Foster@newcastle.edu.au (PSF)

Affiliation Centre for Asthma and Respiratory Disease, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia

Ming Yang

Ming.Yang@newcastle.edu.au (MY); Paul.Foster@newcastle.edu.au (PSF)

Affiliation Centre for Asthma and Respiratory Disease, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PSF MY. Performed the experiments: WW MY. Analyzed the data: WW PMH PSF MY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PMH PSF MY. Wrote the paper: PMH PSF MY.