Nat. Immunol. 14, 611–618 (2013); published online 5 May 2013

We are retracting this publication due to the discovery by the authors that some of the results presented in the paper are unsupported. We deeply regret this circumstance and apologize for any adverse consequences that this might have for the scientific community.

All authors agreed to the retraction of the paper with the following exceptions and clarifications: Jiyeon S. Kim and Weihong Hu could not be reached to comment on the retraction; however, J.S.K. signed an initial version of the retraction submitted to the journal.