About the Authors

Jinong Feng

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinong Feng, Zhifang Zhang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Zhifang Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinong Feng, Zhifang Zhang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Xiwei Wu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Allen Mao

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Frances Chang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Xutao Deng

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Harry Gao

Affiliation DNA Sequencing Core, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Ching Ouyang

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Kenneth J. Dery

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Keith Le

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Jeffrey Longmate

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Claudia Marek

Affiliation R.P. St. Amand MD Inc, Marina Del Rey, California, United States of America

R. Paul St. Amand

Affiliation R.P. St. Amand MD Inc, Marina Del Rey, California, United States of America

Theodore G. Krontiris

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

John E. Shively

jshively@coh.org

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Although Dr. R.P. St. Amand and Claudia Marek are employed by R.P. St. Amand MD Inc., this does not alter their adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JES TGK. Performed the experiments: JF ZZ. Analyzed the data: XW AM FC XD HG CO KL KJD JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CM RPSA. Wrote the paper: JF ZZ JL TGK JES.