About the Authors

Suman R. Das

Contributed equally to this work with: Suman R. Das, Pere Puigbò

Affiliation Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Pere Puigbò

Contributed equally to this work with: Suman R. Das, Pere Puigbò

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Scott E. Hensley

Affiliation Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Darrell E. Hurt

Affiliation Computational Biology Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (BCBB), NIAID, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jack R. Bennink

Affiliation Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jonathan W. Yewdell

jyewdell@nih.gov

Affiliation Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SRD PP JRB JWY. Performed the experiments: SRD PP. Analyzed the data: SRD PP SEH DEH JRB JWY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SRD PP DEH. Wrote the paper: SRD PP SEH JRB JWY.