About the Authors

Gunsup Lee

Affiliations Department of Genetic Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Korea, Fruit Research Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, Rural Development Administration, Suwon, Korea

Jaelim Yu

Affiliation Department of Genetic Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Korea

Seungchan Cho

Affiliation Department of Genetic Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Korea

Sung-June Byun

Affiliation Animal Biotechnology Division, National Institute of Animal Science, Rural Development Administration, Suwon, Korea

Dae Hyun Kim

Affiliation Fruit Research Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, Rural Development Administration, Suwon, Korea

Taek-Kyun Lee

Affiliation South Sea Environment Research Department, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Geoje, Korea

Myung-Hee Kwon

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Ajou University School of Medicine, San 5, Woncheon-dong, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, Korea

Sukchan Lee

cell4u@skku.edu, sukchan107@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Genetic Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GL SL. Performed the experiments: GL JY SC. Analyzed the data: GL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TKL. Wrote the paper: GL SL. Gave conceptual advice and technical support for the biochemistry experiments: MHK. Provided the animal study data: SJB. Provided conceptual advice for the in vivo virus challenging experiments: DHK.