About the Authors

Catalina Petrareanu

Contributed equally to this work with: Catalina Petrareanu, Alina Macovei, Izabela Sokolowska

Affiliations Department of Viral Glycoproteins, Institute of Biochemistry of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania, Department of Analytical Chemistry and Enviromental Engineering, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Alina Macovei

Contributed equally to this work with: Catalina Petrareanu, Alina Macovei, Izabela Sokolowska

Affiliation Department of Viral Glycoproteins, Institute of Biochemistry of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania

Izabela Sokolowska

Contributed equally to this work with: Catalina Petrareanu, Alina Macovei, Izabela Sokolowska

Affiliation Biochemistry and Proteomics Group, Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York, United States of America

Alisa G. Woods

Affiliation Biochemistry and Proteomics Group, Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York, United States of America

Catalin Lazar

Affiliation Department of Viral Glycoproteins, Institute of Biochemistry of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania

Gabriel L. Radu

Affiliation Department of Analytical Chemistry and Enviromental Engineering, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Costel C. Darie

Affiliation Biochemistry and Proteomics Group, Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York, United States of America

Norica Branza-Nichita

nichita@biochim.ro

Affiliation Department of Viral Glycoproteins, Institute of Biochemistry of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NBN CCD CP AM IS. Performed the experiments: CP AM IS AW CL. Analyzed the data: NBN CCD CP AM IS AW GR CL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NBN CCD. Wrote the paper: NBN CCD.