About the Authors

Yi Tian

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Tian, Zhengcai Jia, Jun Wang

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, PLA, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China

Zhengcai Jia

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Tian, Zhengcai Jia, Jun Wang

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, PLA, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China

Jun Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Tian, Zhengcai Jia, Jun Wang

Affiliation Beijing Genomics Institute branch in Shenzhen, Shenzhen, People′s Republic of China

Zemin Huang

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, PLA, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China

Jun Tang

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, PLA, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China

Yanhua Zheng

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, PLA, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China

Yan Tang

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, PLA, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China

Qinghong Wang

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, PLA, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China

Zhiqiang Tian

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, PLA, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China

Di Yang

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, PLA, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China

Yi Zhang

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, PLA, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China

Xiaolan Fu

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, PLA, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China

Jianxun Song

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsyvania, United States of America

Shunli Liu

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, PLA, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China

Jennifer C. van Velkinburgh

Affiliation Initiative for Collaboratory BioMedical Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Yuzhang Wu

E-mail: nibingxi@yahoo.com (BN); wuyuzhang@yahoo.com (YW)

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, PLA, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China

Bing Ni

E-mail: nibingxi@yahoo.com (BN); wuyuzhang@yahoo.com (YW)

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, PLA, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People′s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZW BN JCV YW. Performed the experiments: YZ ZJ ZH JT Y. Zheng Y. Tian QW ZT DY Y. Zang XF SL Y. Tang JS YW. Analyzed the data: JW BN. Wrote the paper: JCV Y. Tian ZJ JW YW BN.