About the Authors

Qi-Liang Cai

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and the Tumor Virology Program, Abramson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jason S Knight

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and the Tumor Virology Program, Abramson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Suhbash C Verma

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and the Tumor Virology Program, Abramson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Philip Zald

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and the Tumor Virology Program, Abramson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Erle S Robertson

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: erle@mail.med.upenn.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and the Tumor Virology Program, Abramson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

ESR supervised the overall design and execution of all experiments from initiation to submission of the manuscript. QLC designed and executed the experiments. JSK, SCV, and PZ assisted in performing some of the experiments and analysis of the generated data. ESR and QLC reviewed the analysis of all the data. QLC, JSK, SCV, and PZ contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. ESR and QLC wrote and submitted the manuscript.