About the Authors

Trevenan Walther

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China

Rositsa Karamanska

Affiliation Division of Molecular Biosciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Biochemistry Building, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom

Renee W. Y. Chan

Affiliations Department of Pathology, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China, Centre of Influenza Research, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China

Michael C. W. Chan

Affiliation Centre of Influenza Research, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China

Nan Jia

Affiliation Division of Molecular Biosciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Biochemistry Building, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom

Gillian Air

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Clark Hopton

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China

Maria P. Wong

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China

Anne Dell

Affiliation Division of Molecular Biosciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Biochemistry Building, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom

J. S. Malik Peiris

Affiliations Centre of Influenza Research, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China, HKU-Pasteur Research Centre, Hong Kong, China

Stuart M. Haslam

s.haslam@imperial.ac.uk.

Affiliation Division of Molecular Biosciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Biochemistry Building, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom

John M. Nicholls

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMN RWYC. Performed the experiments: RWYC MCWC CH TW NJ RK GA. Analyzed the data: JSMP AD SMH JMN GA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MPW. Wrote the paper: JMN RWYC SMH.