About the Authors

Peng Gong

Current address: State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Matthew G. Kortus

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Jay C. Nix

Affiliation Molecular Biology Consortium, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Ralph E. Davis

Affiliation Cocrystal Discovery Inc., Mountain View, California, United States of America

Olve B. Peersen

Olve.Peersen@ColoState.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Co-author R.E.D. is an employee of CoCrystal Discovery, Inc., a biotechnology company developing antiviral therapeutics for human diseases. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Provided purified rhinovirus polymerase for elongation complex assembly: RED. Conceived and designed the experiments: PG OBP. Performed the experiments: PG MGK RED JCN. Analyzed the data: PG MGK OBP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PG MGK RED. Wrote the paper: PG RED OBP.