About the Authors

Sara Dabirian

Affiliation Molecular Immunology and Vaccine Research Laboratory, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Yasaman Taslimi

Affiliation Molecular Immunology and Vaccine Research Laboratory, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Farnaz Zahedifard

Affiliation Molecular Immunology and Vaccine Research Laboratory, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Elham Gholami

Affiliation Molecular Immunology and Vaccine Research Laboratory, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Fatemeh Doustdari

Affiliation Molecular Immunology and Vaccine Research Laboratory, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Mahdieh Motamedirad

Affiliation Virology Department, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Shohreh Khatami

Affiliation Biochemistry Department, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Kayhan Azadmanesh

Affiliation Virology Department, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Susanne Nylen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Sima Rafati

s_rafati@yahoo.com, sima-rafatisy@pasteur.ac.ir

Affiliation Molecular Immunology and Vaccine Research Laboratory, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SR. Performed the experiments: SD YT FZ EG FD MM. Analyzed the data: SD SK KA SN SR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SK KA SN SR. Wrote the paper: SD SN SR.