About the Authors

Nyo Min

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These first authors contributed equally to this article.

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular RNA Virology and Antiviral Strategies, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Yasmin Hui Binn Ong

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

‡ These first authors contributed equally to this article.

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular RNA Virology and Antiviral Strategies, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Alvin X. Han

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Protein Sequence Analysis Group, Bioinformatics Institute, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore

Si Xian Ho

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular RNA Virology and Antiviral Strategies, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Emmerie Wong Phaik Yen

Roles Resources

Affiliation Infectious Disease Service, Department of Pediatrics, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

Kenneth Hon Kim Ban

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Sebastian Maurer-Stroh

Roles Resources

Affiliations Protein Sequence Analysis Group, Bioinformatics Institute, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore, Department of Biological Sciences (DBS), National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Chia Yin Chong

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Infectious Disease Service, Department of Pediatrics, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

Justin Jang Hann Chu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

miccjh@nus.edu.sg

Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular RNA Virology and Antiviral Strategies, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Collaborative and Translation Unit for HFMD, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.