About the Authors

John Steel

Contributed equally to this work with: John Steel, Anice C. Lowen

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

Anice C. Lowen

Contributed equally to this work with: John Steel, Anice C. Lowen

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

Peter Palese

peter.palese@mssm.edu

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

Conceived and designed the experiments: JS ACL PP. Performed the experiments: JS ACL SM. Analyzed the data: JS ACL PP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JS ACL SM PP. Wrote the paper: JS ACL.