About the Authors

Nihal A Okan

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, and Center for Infectious Diseases, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

James B Bliska

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

A. Wali Karzai

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: akarzai@ms.cc.sunysb.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, and Center for Infectious Diseases, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

NAO and AWK conceived and designed the experiments. NAO, JBB, and AWK performed the experiments. NAO, JBB, and AWK analyzed the data. NAO and AWK contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. NAO and AWK wrote the paper.