About the Authors

Dorothee A. Vogt

Affiliations Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, San Francisco, United States of America, Pathology Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, United States of America

Grégory Camus

Affiliation Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, San Francisco, United States of America

Eva Herker

Affiliations Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, San Francisco, United States of America, Liver Center, University of California, San Francisco, United States of America, Heinrich-Pette-Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Brian R. Webster

Affiliation Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, San Francisco, United States of America

Chia-Lin Tsou

Affiliation Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, San Francisco, United States of America

Warner C. Greene

Affiliations Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, San Francisco, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, United States of America

Tien-Sze Benedict Yen

† Deceased August 31, 2009.

Affiliations Liver Center, University of California, San Francisco, United States of America, Pathology Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, United States of America

Melanie Ott

mott@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Affiliations Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, San Francisco, United States of America, Liver Center, University of California, San Francisco, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DAV GC EH TSBY MO. Performed the experiments: DAV GC. Analyzed the data: DAV GC EH TSBY MO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GC EH BRW CLT WCG. Wrote the paper: DAV MO.