About the Authors

Karen S. Hathcock

Contributed equally to this work with: Karen S. Hathcock, Steven Bowen

hathcock@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Steven Bowen

Contributed equally to this work with: Karen S. Hathcock, Steven Bowen

Affiliation Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ferenc Livak

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Richard J. Hodes

Affiliation Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KSH SB FL RJH. Performed the experiments: KSH SB. Analyzed the data: KSH SB FL RJH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KSH SB. Wrote the paper: KSH SB FL RJH.