About the Authors

Naveen K. Jha

Current address: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.

Affiliation Institute of Human Virology and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Olga Latinovic

Affiliation Institute of Human Virology and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Erik Martin

Affiliation Institute of Human Virology and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Gennadiy Novitskiy

Affiliation Institute of Human Virology and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Mariana Marin

Current address: Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Emory University Children's Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.

Affiliation Institute of Human Virology and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kosuke Miyauchi

Current address: AIDS Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.

Affiliation Institute of Human Virology and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

John Naughton

Affiliation Nomis Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

John A. T. Young

Affiliation Nomis Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Gregory B. Melikyan

gmeliki@emory.edu

Current address: Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Emory University Children's Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.

Affiliation Institute of Human Virology and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GBM. Performed the experiments: NKJ OL EM GN MM KM JN. Analyzed the data: NKJ OL EM GN MM KM JN GBM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JATY. Wrote the paper: MM JATY GBM.