We thank Dr Wei-dong Le for providing the MES23.5 cell line. This work was supported by grants from the National Program of Basic Research sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Tech- nology of China (2006CB500704), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30930036, 30770757, 30870858) and the Natural Science Fund of Shandong Province for Distinguished Young Scholars (JQ200807).
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Acknowledgments We thank Dr Yi Zhang (Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China) for helpful discussions. This work was supported by National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2005CB5227053), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 30671945), Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (No. 06JC 14044 and 07JC 14070), Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project (T0206), Shanghai Institute of Immunology Academic Project (No. 07-A04, to Ningli Li) and Leading Academic discipline project (IRT0637, Education ministry of China).
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