About the Authors

Hua Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Hua Cao

Affiliations Dermatology Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America, Molecular Biology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Peihong Dai

Affiliation Molecular Biology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Weiyi Wang

Affiliation Dermatology Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Hao Li

Affiliation Immune Monitoring Core Facility, Ludwig Center for Cancer Immunotherapy, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Jianda Yuan

Affiliation Immune Monitoring Core Facility, Ludwig Center for Cancer Immunotherapy, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Fangjin Wang

Affiliation Dermatology Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Chee-Mun Fang

Affiliation Department of Biology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Paula M Pitha

Affiliation Department of Biology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jia Liu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Richard C Condit

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Grant McFadden

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Taha Merghoub

Affiliation Immunology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Alan N Houghton

Affiliation Immunology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

James W Young

Affiliation Laboratory of Cellular Immunobiology, Adult Allogenic Bone Marrow Transplantation Service, Division of Hematologic Oncology, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Stewart Shuman

Affiliations Molecular Biology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America, Lucille Castori Center for Microbes, Inflammation and Cancer, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Liang Deng

dengl@mskcc.org

Affiliations Dermatology Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America, Lucille Castori Center for Microbes, Inflammation and Cancer, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HC PHD LD. Performed the experiments: HC PHD WYW HL FJW CMF JL. Analyzed the data: HC PHD WYW HL JDY RCC GM TM ANH PMP JWY SS LD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RCC GM PMP. Wrote the paper: HC PHD LD.