About the Authors

Kevin R. McCarthy

Affiliations Harvard Program in Virology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Biology Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America

Aaron G. Schmidt

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andrea Kirmaier

Affiliation Biology Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America

Allison L. Wyand

Affiliation Biology Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ruchi M. Newman

Affiliation Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Welkin E. Johnson

welkin.johnson@bc.edu

Affiliation Biology Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KRM AGS WEJ. Performed the experiments: KRM AGS AK ALW RMN. Analyzed the data: KRM AGS AK RMN WEJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KRM AGS AK RMN WEJ. Wrote the paper: KRM AGS WEJ.