About the Authors

Zhen-yong Keck

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Jinming Xia

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Yong Wang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Wenyan Wang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Thomas Krey

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, CNRS URA3015, Unite de Virologie Structurale, Paris, France

Jannick Prentoe

Affiliations Copenhagen Hepatitis C Program (CO-HEP), Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Research Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark, Department of International Health, Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Thomas Carlsen

Affiliations Copenhagen Hepatitis C Program (CO-HEP), Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Research Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark, Department of International Health, Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Angela Ying-Jian Li

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Arvind H. Patel

Affiliation MRC – University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Stanley M. Lemon

Affiliation Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jens Bukh

Affiliations Copenhagen Hepatitis C Program (CO-HEP), Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Research Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark, Department of International Health, Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Felix A. Rey

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, CNRS URA3015, Unite de Virologie Structurale, Paris, France

Steven K. H. Foung

sfoung@stanford.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZYK SKHF. Performed the experiments: JX YW WW TC JP AL. Analyzed the data: ZYK JP TC TK JB FAR SKHF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AHP SML. Wrote the paper: ZYK SKHF.