About the Authors

Pulin Che

Affiliation Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1918 University Boulevard, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States of America

Yunjia Chen

Affiliation Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1918 University Boulevard, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States of America

Roujian Lu

Affiliation the National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Beijing, China

Ning Peng

Affiliation Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1918 University Boulevard, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States of America

Mary Gannon

Affiliation Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1918 University Boulevard, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States of America

J. Michael Wyss

Affiliation Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1918 University Boulevard, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States of America

Kai Jiao

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 720 20th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States of America

Qin Wang

qinwang@uab.edu

Affiliation Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1918 University Boulevard, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMW KJ QW. Performed the experiments: PC YC RL NP MG. Analyzed the data: PC JMW KJ QW. Wrote the paper: PC MG KJ QW.