About the Authors
- Xin Chen
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* E-mail: chenxin@mail.nih.gov (XC); oppenhej@mail.nih.gov (JJO)
Affiliations Basic Science Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America, Laboratory of Molecular Immunoregulation, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
- Yuan Yang
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Affiliation Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
- Qiong Zhou
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Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Immunoregulation, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
- Jonathan M. Weiss
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Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Immunology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
- OlaMae Zack Howard
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Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Immunoregulation, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
- John M. McPherson
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Affiliation Genzyme Corporation, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Lalage M. Wakefield
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Affiliation Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
- Joost J. Oppenheim
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* E-mail: chenxin@mail.nih.gov (XC); oppenhej@mail.nih.gov (JJO)
Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Immunoregulation, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have no financial conflict of interest, except for Dr. John M. McPherson who was a former employee of Genzyme Corporation, and he retired from this company earlier this year. Xin Chen is an employee of Leidos Biomedical Research Inc. (formerly known as SAIC-Frederick), which is a contractor of NCI. This manuscript is not involved in any product and patent from Leidos Biomedical Research Inc. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: XC LMW JJO. Performed the experiments: XC YY QZ JMW OMZH. Analyzed the data: XC YY QZ LMW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMM. Wrote the paper: XC LMW JJO.