About the Authors

Weixia Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Weixia Li, Meng Zhou, Hongyan Ren

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China

Meng Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Weixia Li, Meng Zhou, Hongyan Ren

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China

Hongyan Ren

Contributed equally to this work with: Weixia Li, Meng Zhou, Hongyan Ren

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China, Cancer Research and Biotherapy Center, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China

Hong-Ming Hu

Affiliations Cancer Research and Biotherapy Center, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China, Laboratory of Cancer Immunobiology, Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Providence Portland Medical Center, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Liwei Lu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Center of Infection and Immunology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Meng Cao

wanglx66@yahoo.com.cn (LxW); mcao1979@yahoo.com.cn (MC)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China

Li-xin Wang

wanglx66@yahoo.com.cn (LxW); mcao1979@yahoo.com.cn (MC)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China, Cancer Research and Biotherapy Center, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Final approval of the version to be published: HMH LL. Conceived and designed the experiments: HMH LL MC LxW. Performed the experiments: WL MZ HR. Analyzed the data: WL MZ HR HMH LL MC LxW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WL MZ HR MC. Wrote the paper: WL LxW.