About the Authors

Cândida F. Pereira

Affiliations Centre for Virology, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Monash Micro Imaging, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Department of Medicine, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Paula C. Ellenberg

Affiliations Centre for Virology, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Medicine, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Kate L. Jones

Affiliation Centre for Virology, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Tara L. Fernandez

Current address: Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia

Affiliation Centre for Virology, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Redmond P. Smyth

Affiliations Centre for Virology, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IBMC, Strasbourg, France

David J. Hawkes

Affiliation Centre for Virology, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Marcel Hijnen

Affiliations Centre for Virology, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Valérie Vivet-Boudou

Affiliation Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IBMC, Strasbourg, France

Roland Marquet

Affiliation Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IBMC, Strasbourg, France

Iain Johnson

Affiliation Life Technologies Corporation, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

Johnson Mak

mak@burnet.edu.au

Affiliations Centre for Virology, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

Iain Johnson is an employee of Life Technologies Corporation, the company that sells the tetracysteine FlAsH and ReAsH dye. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CFP JM. Performed the experiments: CFP PCE KLJ TF RPS. Analyzed the data: CFP PCE KLJ TF RPS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DJH MH VVB RM IJ. Wrote the paper: CFP JM.