About the Authors

Jian Ding

Affiliation Public Health Research Institute, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Carley Tasker

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Kimyata Valere

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Tiina Sihvonen

Affiliation Public Health Research Institute, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Dante B. Descalzi-Montoya

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Wuyuan Lu

Affiliation Institute of Human Virology and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Theresa L. Chang

changth@umdnj.edu

Affiliations Public Health Research Institute, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JD WL TLC. Performed the experiments: JD CT KV TS DBD. Analyzed the data: JD CT KV TS DBD TLC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WL. Wrote the paper: JD WL TLC.