About the Authors

Lina Li

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Gene Therapy, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Emilios K. Dimitriadis

Affiliation National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yu Yang

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Gene Therapy, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Juan Li

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Zhenhua Yuan

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Chunping Qiao

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Cyriaque Beley

Affiliation Biotherapies of Neuromuscular Diseases, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Versailles, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France

Richard H. Smith

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Gene Therapy, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Luis Garcia

Affiliation Biotherapies of Neuromuscular Diseases, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Versailles, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France

Robert M. Kotin

kotinr@nhlbi.nih.gov

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Gene Therapy, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LL EKD YY JL ZY CQ CB RHS LG RMK. Performed the experiments: LL EKD YY JL ZY CQ CB. Analyzed the data: LL EKD YY JL ZY CQ CB RHS RMK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LL EKD YY JL CQ RHS. Wrote the paper: LL RHS EKD JL RMK.