About the Authors

Michael L. Washburn

Affiliations Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Grigoriy I. Kovalev

Affiliations Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Ekaterina Koroleva

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Yang-Xin Fu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Center for Infection and Immunity, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Lishan Su

lsu@med.unc.edu

Affiliations Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Infection and Immunity, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LS. Performed the experiments: MLW GIK EK. Analyzed the data: MLW GIK YXF LS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YXF. Wrote the paper: MLW LS.