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The authors thank Drs Christine Lai, Kathryn S Jones, O M Zack Howard, Francis W Ruscetti and Ji Ming Wang for their help in this study.
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This Research was supported (in part) by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research and (in part) by the University of Macau (SRG2014-00024-ICMS-QRCM).
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Hamano, R., Wu, X., Wang, Y. et al. Characterization of MT-2 cells as a human regulatory T cell-like cell line. Cell Mol Immunol 12, 780–782 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/cmi.2014.123
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