We thank Dr Mingxiao He (Duke University for Immunology Research) for critical reading of this manuscript. This work was supported by the Research Special Fund for Public Welfare Industry of Health (Grant Nos. 201202004 and 201302018), the National Program for Key Basic Research Projects, Ministry of Science and Technology, China (2013CB530503 and 2014CB542103), the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 5122031), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 30972776) and the National High Technology Research and Development Program (863 Program) (Grant No. 2007AA021109). We thank Dr Austin Cape for careful reading and feedback.
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Acknowledgements The authors wish to apologize to the investigators whose outstanding work was not cited here because of space limitation. The authors would also like to thank Mr Martin Ting Ma for assisting in manuscript preparation.;Funding This work was supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30430360, 30671033, and 30600096), the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China (2004CB720002, 2006CB943401, and 2006CB910102), and the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (2006AA02Z 172).
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