About the Authors

Valentina A. Feodorova

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

feodorovav@mail.ru (VAF); vlmotin@utmb.edu (VLM)

Affiliations Laboratory for Molecular Biology and NanoBiotechnology, Federal Research Center for Virology and Microbiology, Branch in Saratov, Saratov, Russia, Department for Microbiology, Biotechnology and Chemistry, Saratov State Agrarian University named after N.I. Vavilov, Saratov, Russia

Anna M. Lyapina

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular Biology and NanoBiotechnology, Federal Research Center for Virology and Microbiology, Branch in Saratov, Saratov, Russia

Maria A. Khizhnyakova

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition

Affiliations Laboratory for Molecular Biology and NanoBiotechnology, Federal Research Center for Virology and Microbiology, Branch in Saratov, Saratov, Russia, Department for Microbiology, Biotechnology and Chemistry, Saratov State Agrarian University named after N.I. Vavilov, Saratov, Russia

Sergey S. Zaitsev

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular Biology and NanoBiotechnology, Federal Research Center for Virology and Microbiology, Branch in Saratov, Saratov, Russia

Lidiya V. Sayapina

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Vaccine Control, Scientific Center on Expertise of Medical Application Products, Moscow, Russia

Tatiana E. Arseneva

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology of Yersinia pestis, Anti-plague Research Institute, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Alexey L. Trukhachev

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology of Yersinia pestis, Anti-plague Research Institute, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Svetlana A. Lebedeva

Roles Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology of Yersinia pestis, Anti-plague Research Institute, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Maxim V. Telepnev

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Onega V. Ulianova

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular Biology and NanoBiotechnology, Federal Research Center for Virology and Microbiology, Branch in Saratov, Saratov, Russia

Elena P. Lyapina

Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department for Infectious Diseases, Saratov State Medical University named after V.I. Razumovsky, Saratov, Russia

Sergey S. Ulyanov

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Laboratory for Molecular Biology and NanoBiotechnology, Federal Research Center for Virology and Microbiology, Branch in Saratov, Saratov, Russia, Department for Medical Optics, Saratov State University, Saratov, Russia

Vladimir L. Motin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

feodorovav@mail.ru (VAF); vlmotin@utmb.edu (VLM)

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.