About the Authors

Mengxi Jiang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Linbo Zhao

Affiliation Graduate Program in Cancer Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Monica Gamez

Current address: Microbiology Doctoral Training Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Michael J. Imperiale

imperial@umich.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Graduate Program in Cancer Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MJ MJI. Performed the experiments: MJ MG LZ. Analyzed the data: MJ MJI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJ MG LZ. Wrote the paper: MJ MJI.