About the Authors

Adeyemi O. Adedeji

Affiliation Christopher Bond Life Sciences Center, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Missouri, School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Bruno Marchand

Affiliation Christopher Bond Life Sciences Center, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Missouri, School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Aartjan J. W. te Velthuis

Affiliation Molecular Virology Laboratory, Department of Medical Microbiology, Center of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Eric J. Snijder

Affiliation Molecular Virology Laboratory, Department of Medical Microbiology, Center of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Susan Weiss

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Robert L. Eoff

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Kamalendra Singh

Affiliation Christopher Bond Life Sciences Center, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Missouri, School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Stefan G. Sarafianos

sarafianoss@missouri.edu

Affiliation Christopher Bond Life Sciences Center, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Missouri, School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AOA KS SGS. Performed the experiments: AOA. Analyzed the data: AOA KS SGS BM RLE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RLE SW AJWT EJS. Wrote the paper: AOA KS SGS.