About the Authors

Tong Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Tong Wang, Younong Xu

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Key Laboratory of Functional Protein Research of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Institute of Life and Health Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Younong Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Tong Wang, Younong Xu

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Haiying Zhu

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Thomas Andrus

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Sergei B. Ivanov

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Charlotte Pan

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jazel Dolores

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Gregory C. Dann

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Michael Zhou

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Dominic Forte

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Zihuan Yang

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Sarah Holte

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Lawrence Corey

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Division of Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Tuofu Zhu

tzhu@u.washington.edu

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Division of Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TZ TW. Performed the experiments: TW YX HZ TA SBI CP JD GCD DF. Analyzed the data: TW HZ SBI MZ ZY SH LC. Wrote the paper: TW TZ YX.