About the Authors

Christine E. Brown

Contributed equally to this work with: Christine E. Brown, Charles D. Warden

cbrown@coh.org

Affiliation Department of Cancer Immunotherapy & Tumor Immunology and Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Beckman Research Institute and City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Charles D. Warden

Contributed equally to this work with: Christine E. Brown, Charles D. Warden

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

Renate Starr

Affiliation Department of Cancer Immunotherapy & Tumor Immunology and Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Beckman Research Institute and City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Xutao Deng

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

Behnam Badie

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Beckman Research Institute and City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Yate-Ching Yuan

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

Stephen J. Forman

Co-senior authors.

Affiliation Department of Cancer Immunotherapy & Tumor Immunology and Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Beckman Research Institute and City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Michael E. Barish

Co-senior authors.

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Beckman Research Institute and City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CEB CDW XD BB YCY SJF MEB. Performed the experiments: CEB CDW RS XD MEB. Analyzed the data: CEB CDW RS XD MEB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CEB CDW RS XD. Wrote the manuscript: CEB CDW MEB.