About the Authors

Yuan Chen

Affiliations The Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Institute of Immunity and Transplantation, University College London and the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Lakshmana Ayaru

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Sanju Mathew

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Emma Morris

Affiliation Institute of Immunity and Transplantation, University College London and the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Stephen P. Pereira

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephen P. Pereira, Shahriar Behboudi

Stephen.pereira@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliation The Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Shahriar Behboudi

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephen P. Pereira, Shahriar Behboudi

Affiliation The Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YC LA SPP SB. Performed the experiments: YC SB. Analyzed the data: YC LA SM EM SPP SB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YC SPP SB. Wrote the paper: YC EM SPP SB.