About the Authors

Ying Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Ma, Jiuping Wang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Jiuping Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Ma, Jiuping Wang

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases of Tangdu Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Bin Yuan

Affiliation Department of Immunology, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Meiliang Wang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Yun Zhang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Zhuwei Xu

Affiliation Department of Immunology, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Chunmei Zhang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Yusi Zhang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Bei Liu

Affiliation Department of Immunology, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Jing Yi

Affiliation Department of Immunology, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Kun Yang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Angang Yang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Ran Zhuang

immu_zr@yahoo.com (RZ); immu_jin@fmmu.edu.cn (BJ)

Affiliation Department of Immunology, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Boquan Jin

immu_zr@yahoo.com (RZ); immu_jin@fmmu.edu.cn (BJ)

Affiliation Department of Immunology, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Boquan Jin, Ran Zhuang. Performed the experiments: Ying Ma, Meiliang Wang. Analyzed the data: Jiuping Wang, Bin Yuan, Yun Zhang, Zhuwei Xu, Kun Yang, Angang Yang. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Jiuping Wang, Chunmei Zhang, Yusi Zhang, Bei Liu, Jing Yi. Wrote the paper: Ying Ma, Bin Yuan.