About the Authors

Dmitriy Zamarin

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

Adolfo García-Sastre

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

Xiaoyao Xiao

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Rong Wang

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Peter Palese

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Peter.Palese@mssm.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

DZ, AGS, and PP conceived and designed the experiments. DZ, XX, and PP performed the experiments. DZ, AGS, XX, RW, and PP analyzed the data. DZ, CC, RW, and PP contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. DZ and PP wrote the paper.