About the Authors

Chinmay K. Mantri

Affiliation The Laboratory of Retrovirology and Epigenetics, Center For AIDS Health Disparities Research, Vanderbilt-Meharry Center for AIDS Research, Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Biology, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Jui Pandhare Dash

Affiliation The Laboratory of Retrovirology and Epigenetics, Center For AIDS Health Disparities Research, Vanderbilt-Meharry Center for AIDS Research, Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Biology, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Jyoti Velamarti Mantri

Affiliation The Laboratory of Retrovirology and Epigenetics, Center For AIDS Health Disparities Research, Vanderbilt-Meharry Center for AIDS Research, Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Biology, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Chandravanu C. V. Dash

cdash@mmc.edu

Affiliation The Laboratory of Retrovirology and Epigenetics, Center For AIDS Health Disparities Research, Vanderbilt-Meharry Center for AIDS Research, Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Biology, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CD designed and directed the entire study. Performed the experiments: CM, JM and JP carried out the real-time PCR, HIV-1 infection, and knockdown experiments. Analyzed the data: CM, JP and CD analyzed the data. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CM, JM and JP carried out the real-time PCR, HIV-1 infection, and knockdown experiments. Wrote the manuscript: CM, JP and CD wrote the manuscript and all the authors reviewed the manuscript.