About the Authors

Frederic Vigant

Contributed equally to this work with: Frederic Vigant, Jihye Lee

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jihye Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Frederic Vigant, Jihye Lee

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Axel Hollmann

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Lukas B. Tanner

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering (NGS), National University of Singapore, Singapore

Zeynep Akyol Ataman

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Tatyana Yun

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Guanghou Shui

Current address: State Key Laboratory of Molecular Developmental Biology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Affiliation Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Hector C. Aguilar

Affiliation Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health, Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Dong Zhang

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

David Meriwether

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Gleyder Roman-Sosa

Current address: Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Lindsey R. Robinson

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Terry L. Juelich

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Hubert Buczkowski

Affiliation Wildlife Zoonoses and Vector Borne Disease Research Group, Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Weybridge, Surrey, United Kingdom

Sunwen Chou

Affiliation Oregon Health & Science University and VA Medical Center, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Miguel A. R. B. Castanho

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Mike C. Wolf

Current address: Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jennifer K. Smith

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Ashley Banyard

Affiliation Wildlife Zoonoses and Vector Borne Disease Research Group, Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Weybridge, Surrey, United Kingdom

Margaret Kielian

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Srinivasa Reddy

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Markus R. Wenk

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Matthias Selke

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Nuno C. Santos

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Alexander N. Freiberg

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Michael E. Jung

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Benhur Lee

bleebhl@ucla.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FV JL AH LBT ZAA TY GS HCA DZ DM GRS LRR TLJ HB SC MARBC MCW JKS AB MK SR MRW MS NCS ANF MEJ BL. Performed the experiments: FV JL AH LBT ZAA TY GS HCA DZ DM GRS LRR TLJ HB MARBC MCW JKS. Analyzed the data: FV JL AH LBT ZAA TY GS HCA DZ DM GRS LRR TLJ HB SC MARBC MCW JKS AB MK SR MRW MS NCS ANF MEJ BL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FV JL AH LBT ZAA TY GS HCA DZ DM GRS LRR TLJ HB SC MARBC MCW JKS AB MK SR MRW MS NCS ANF MEJ BL. Wrote the paper: FV JL MEJ BL. Reviewed/commented the manuscript: FV JL AH LBT DZ DM GRS HB AB MK SR MRW MS NCS ANF MEJ BL.