About the Authors

Nozomi Sakakibara

Current address: Office of Vaccine Research and Review, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America.

Affiliation Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Dan Chen

Affiliation Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Moon Kyoo Jang

Affiliation Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Dong Wook Kang

Current address: Department of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Catholic University of Daegu, Kyeongsan-si, Kyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea.

Affiliation Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Hans F. Luecke

Affiliation Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Shwu-Yuan Wu

Affiliations Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Cheng-Ming Chiang

Affiliations Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Alison A. McBride

amcbride@nih.gov

Affiliation Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AAM NS. Performed the experiments: AAM NS DC MKJ. Analyzed the data: AAM NS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CMC HFL SYW DWK. Wrote the paper: AAM.