Kayla Parr

Present address: Department of Integrative Immunobiology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

Cai Chen

Present address: Merck & Co. Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA

Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Biswas Neupane, Kedwin Ventura, Kayla Parr, Jui-En Ray Lee, Kevin Quann & Sawa Ito

Admera Health, South Plainfield, NJ, USA

Cai Chen

Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

A. John Barrett

Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Sawa Ito

Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Sawa Ito

BN designed the laboratory research, conducted laboratory research, collected, and interpreted data, and wrote the manuscript. KV, KP, and JRL conducted laboratory research, collected, and interpreted data, and reviewed the manuscript. SC, KQ, and CC conducted bioinformatic analysis, interpreted data, and reviewed the manuscript. JB co-conceived the project design, analyzed the data, and reviewed the manuscript. SI conceived the project, designed the laboratory research, conducted laboratory research, collected, and interpreted data, and wrote the manuscript.

Correspondence to Sawa Ito.