About the Authors

Huiyong Wei

Current address: Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Immunology & Microbiology, Center for Primate Biomedical Research, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Richard Wang

Affiliation Department of Immunology & Microbiology, Center for Primate Biomedical Research, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Zhuqing Yuan

Affiliation Department of Immunology & Microbiology, Center for Primate Biomedical Research, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Crystal Y. Chen

Affiliation Department of Immunology & Microbiology, Center for Primate Biomedical Research, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Dan Huang

Affiliation Department of Immunology & Microbiology, Center for Primate Biomedical Research, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Lisa Halliday

Affiliation Biological Resource Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Weihua Zhong

Affiliation Department of Immunology & Microbiology, Center for Primate Biomedical Research, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Gucheng Zeng

Affiliation Department of Immunology & Microbiology, Center for Primate Biomedical Research, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Yun Shen

Affiliation Department of Immunology & Microbiology, Center for Primate Biomedical Research, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Ling Shen

Affiliation Department of Immunology & Microbiology, Center for Primate Biomedical Research, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Yunqi Wang

Affiliation Department of Immunology & Microbiology, Center for Primate Biomedical Research, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Zheng W. Chen

zchen@uic.edu

Affiliation Department of Immunology & Microbiology, Center for Primate Biomedical Research, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HW ZWC. Performed the experiments: HW RCW ZY CYC DH LH WZ YS. Analyzed the data: HW RCW GZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RCW ZY CYC DH LH WZ YS LS YW. Wrote the paper: HW ZWC.