About the Authors

Miriam Triyatni

Current address: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America

Affiliation Molecular Structure Section, Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Edward A. Berger

Affiliation Molecular Structure Section, Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Bertrand Saunier

bertrand.saunier@inserm.fr

Affiliations Molecular Structure Section, Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Paris-Descartes University, Faculty of Medicine, Paris, France, Institut Cochin, Paris, France, Inserm U1016, Paris, France

Competing Interests

B. Saunier, M. Triyatni and E. A. Berger are coinventors on an NIH-owned patent application submitted on the HCV particle production system.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EAB BS. Performed the experiments: MT BS. Analyzed the data: MT EAB BS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MT BS. Wrote the paper: EAB BS. Contributed to ideas and writing the manuscript: MT. Suggested ideas and experiments, discussed the data, and contributed extensively to writing the manuscript: EAB.