About the Authors

Whitney Greene

Contributed equally to this work with: Whitney Greene, Wei Zhang

Affiliation Tumor Virology Program, Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute, and Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Wei Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Whitney Greene, Wei Zhang

Affiliations Tumor Virology Program, Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute, and Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Meilan He

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Colleen Witt

Affiliation Department of Biology, College of Sciences, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Fengchun Ye

Affiliation Tumor Virology Program, Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute, and Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Shou-Jiang Gao

shoujiag@usc.edu

Affiliations Tumor Virology Program, Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute, and Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern 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: WG WZ SJG. Performed the experiments: WG WZ MH CW FY SJG. Analyzed the data: WG WZ SJG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WG WZ CW FY SJG. Wrote the paper: WG WZ SJG.