About the Authors
- Wei Xu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Xu, Qin Lan
Affiliations Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine Program, Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China
- Qin Lan
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Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Xu, Qin Lan
Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, The Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Institute of Immunology, Shanghai East Hospital of Tongji University, Shanghai, China
- Maogen Chen
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Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, The Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Hui Chen
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Affiliation Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine Program, Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Ning Zhu
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Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, The Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Xiaohui Zhou
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Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, The Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Institute of Immunology, Shanghai East Hospital of Tongji University, Shanghai, China
- Julie Wang
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Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, The Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Huimin Fan
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Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Shanghai East Hospital of Tongji University, Shanghai, China
- Chun-Song Yan
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Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China
- Jiu-Long Kuang
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Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China
- David Warburton
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Affiliation Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine Program, Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Dieudonnée Togbe
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Affiliation Molecular Immunology, University and CNRS, Orleans, France
- Bernhard Ryffel
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Affiliation Molecular Immunology, University and CNRS, Orleans, France
- Song-Guo Zheng
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* E-mail: szheng@usc.edu (SG); wshi@chla.usc.edu (WS)
Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, The Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Wei Shi
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* E-mail: szheng@usc.edu (SG); wshi@chla.usc.edu (WS)
Affiliation Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine Program, Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
Co-authors Wei Shi and Song-Guo Zheng are PLoS ONE Editorial Board members. 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: HF CY JK DW DT BR SZ WS. Performed the experiments: WX QL MC HC NZ XZ JW. Analyzed the data: WX QL HC NZ XZ JW SZ WS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DT BR SZ WS. Wrote the paper: WX DW BR SZ WS.