About the Authors

Dennis J. Grab

dgrab1@jhmi.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jose C. Garcia-Garcia

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Olga V. Nikolskaia

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Yuri V. Kim

Current address: Institute of Human Virology, School of Medicine University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Amanda Brown

Affiliation Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Carlos A. Pardo

Affiliation Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Yongqing Zhang

Affiliation Gene Expression and Genomics Unit, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kevin G. Becker

Affiliation Gene Expression and Genomics Unit, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Brenda A. Wilson

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Ana Paula C. de A. Lima

Affiliation Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Julio Scharfstein

Affiliation Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

J. Stephen Dumler

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DJG JCGG YVK CAP KGB BAW APCdAL JS JSD. Performed the experiments: DJG JCGG OVN AB. Analyzed the data: DJG JCGG OVN YZ KGB JSD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DJG BAW APCdAL. Wrote the paper: DJG JCGG JSD.