About the Authors

Andrew B Sharabi

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Melissa Aldrich

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Drazen Sosic

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Eric N Olson

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Alan D Friedman

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Oncology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Sung-Hyung Lee

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Si-Yi Chen

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: siyichen@usc.edu

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America , Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

ABS and SYC conceived and designed the experiments. ABS, MA, and SHL performed the experiments. ABS, DS, ADF, and SYC analyzed the data. DS, ENO, and ADF contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. ABS and SYC wrote the paper.