About the Authors

Anice C Lowen

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: anice.lowen@mssm.edu (ACL), peter.palese@mssm.edu (PP)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Samira Mubareka

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

John Steel

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Peter Palese

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: anice.lowen@mssm.edu (ACL), peter.palese@mssm.edu (PP)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America , Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

ACL and PP conceived and designed the experiments. ACL, SM, and JS performed the experiments. All authors analyzed the data. ACL wrote the paper.