About the Authors

Luke I. Rast

Affiliations Gladstone Institutes (Virology and Immunology), San Francisco, California, United States of America, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Igor M. Rouzine

Current address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Gladstone Institutes (Virology and Immunology), San Francisco, California, United States of America

Ganna Rozhnova

Current address: Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Affiliation Gladstone Institutes (Virology and Immunology), San Francisco, California, United States of America

Lisa Bishop

Current address: Quantum Camp Inc., Blue Mountain Centre of Meditation, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Gladstone Institutes (Virology and Immunology), San Francisco, California, United States of America

Ariel D. Weinberger

ariel.weinberger@wyss.harvard.edu (ADW); leor.weinberger@gladstone.ucsf.edu (LSW)

Affiliation Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Leor S. Weinberger

ariel.weinberger@wyss.harvard.edu (ADW); leor.weinberger@gladstone.ucsf.edu (LSW)

Affiliations Gladstone Institutes (Virology and Immunology), San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, QB3: California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: LSW is named as an inventor on an International Patent Application applied for by the J. David Gladstone Institutes related to therapeutic interfering particles.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LSW IMR LIR. Performed the experiments: LIR GR LB. Analyzed the data: IMR LIR ADW GR LSW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ADW LSW. Wrote the paper: LIR IMR ADW LSW.