About the Authors

Hamidreza Hashemi

Affiliation Department of Virology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Somayeh Pouyanfard

Affiliation Department of Virology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Mojgan Bandehpour

Affiliations Cellular and Molecular Biology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Biotechnology Department, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Zahra Noroozbabaei

Affiliation Department of Virology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Bahram Kazemi

kazemi@sbmu.ac.ir (BK); Mokhtari@Sina.tums.ac.ir (TM)

Affiliations Cellular and Molecular Biology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Biotechnology Department, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Xavier Saelens

Affiliations Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, VIB, Ghent, Belgium, Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Talat Mokhtari-Azad

kazemi@sbmu.ac.ir (BK); Mokhtari@Sina.tums.ac.ir (TM)

Affiliation Department of Virology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HH SP BK TM. Performed the experiments: HH SP MB ZN. Analyzed the data: HH XS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB BK TM. Wrote the paper: HH SP XS.