About the Authors

Benny J. Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Benny J. Chen, Yiqun Jiao, Ping Zhang

chen0032@mc.duke.edu

Affiliations Departments of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Yiqun Jiao

Contributed equally to this work with: Benny J. Chen, Yiqun Jiao, Ping Zhang

Affiliation Departments of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Ping Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Benny J. Chen, Yiqun Jiao, Ping Zhang

Affiliation Departments of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Albert Y. Sun

Affiliation Departments of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Geoffrey S. Pitt

Affiliation Departments of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Divino Deoliveira

Affiliation Departments of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Nicholas Drago

Affiliation Departments of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Tong Ye

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Chen Liu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Nelson J. Chao

Affiliations Departments of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BJC. Performed the experiments: BJC YJ PZ AYS DD ND. Analyzed the data: BJC YJ PZ AYS GSP DD ND TY CL. Wrote the paper: BJC AYS TY CL NJC.