About the Authors

Vaithilingaraja Arumugaswami

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Roland Remenyi

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Vidhya Kanagavel

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Eric Yiang Sue

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Tuyet Ngoc Ho

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Chang Liu

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Vanessa Fontanes

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

Asim Dasgupta

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, AIDS Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ren Sun

rsun@mednet.ucla.edu

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, AIDS Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VA RS. Performed the experiments: VA RR VK TNH CL. Analyzed the data: VA EYS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VF AD. Wrote the paper: VA AD RS.