About the Authors

Oscar A Negrete

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Mike C Wolf

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Hector C Aguilar

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Sven Enterlein

Affiliation University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Wei Wang

Affiliation Department of Medicine-Infectious Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Elke Mühlberger

Affiliation Institute for Virology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Stephen V Su

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Andrea Bertolotti-Ciarlet

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ramon Flick

Affiliation University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Benhur Lee

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bleebhl@ucla.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America , Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America , UCLA AIDS Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

OAN and BL conceived and designed the experiments. OAN, MCW, SE, WW, and SVS performed the experiments and analyzed the data. OAN, HCA, EM, ABC, and RF contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. OAN and BL wrote the paper.