About the Authors

Vyacheslav Furtak

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Alok Mulky

Affiliation HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Stephen A. Rawlings

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Lina Kozhaya

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

KyeongEun Lee

Affiliation HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Vineet N. KewalRamani

vineet@mac.com (VK); derya@mac.com (DU)

Affiliation HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Derya Unutmaz

vineet@mac.com (VK); derya@mac.com (DU)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The corresponding authors Derya Unutmaz and Vineet KewalRamani currently serve as associate editors of PLoS ONE.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VF VK DU. Performed the experiments: VF AM SAR LK KL. Analyzed the data: VF AM SAR LK VK DU. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KL VK. Wrote the paper: VF SAR VK DU.