About the Authors

YoungSik Cho

Contributed equally to this work with: YoungSik Cho, Thomas McQuade

Current address: College of Pharmacy, Keimyung University, Daegu, Korea

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Program in Immunology and Virology, The University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Thomas McQuade

Contributed equally to this work with: YoungSik Cho, Thomas McQuade

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Program in Immunology and Virology, The University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Haibing Zhang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jianke Zhang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Francis Ka-Ming Chan

Francis.chan@umassmed.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Program in Immunology and Virology, The University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, UMass Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Center, The University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JZ FKMC. Performed the experiments: YC TM HZ JZ FKMC. Analyzed the data: YC HZ JZ FKMC. Wrote the paper: FKMC.