About the Authors

Evan Markegard

Contributed equally to this work with: Evan Markegard, Evan Trager

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Evan Trager

Contributed equally to this work with: Evan Markegard, Evan Trager

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Chih-wen Ou Yang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Weiguo Zhang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Arthur Weiss

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Rosalind Russell Medical Research Center for Arthritis, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jeroen P. Roose

jeroen.roose@ucsf.edu

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Carried out the majority of the experiments: ET EM. Performed the sorting of LAT deleted T cells and the FACS staining of these cells: COY. Provided the mouse model and read the manuscript: WZ. Provided comments: AW. Designed the study: JPR. Performed some experiments: JPR. Wrote the manuscript: JPR.