About the Authors

Li Bie

Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery of the First Clinical Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, People's Republic of China, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Gang Zhao

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery of the First Clinical Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, People's Republic of China

Pui Cheng

Affiliation Vaccine Research Institute of San Diego, San Diego, United States of America

Gaelle Rondeau

Affiliation Vaccine Research Institute of San Diego, San Diego, United States of America

Steffen Porwollik

Affiliation Vaccine Research Institute of San Diego, San Diego, United States of America

Yan Ju

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery of the First Clinical Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, People's Republic of China

Xiao-Qin Xia

xqxia@ihb.ac.cn (XX); mmcclell@uci.edu (MM)

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Vaccine Research Institute of San Diego, San Diego, United States of America, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Michael McClelland

xqxia@ihb.ac.cn (XX); mmcclell@uci.edu (MM)

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Vaccine Research Institute of San Diego, San Diego, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Michael McClelland is a founder and stockholder of Proveri, a company involved in diagnostics and prognotics for a cancer. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM LB GZ YJ. Performed the experiments: LB XX. Analyzed the data: MM LB XX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GZ GR YJ PC. Wrote the paper: MM LB SP XX.