About the Authors

Yi-ying Chou

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Nicholas S. Heaton

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Qinshan Gao

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Peter Palese

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Robert Singer

Affiliations Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America, Gruss Lipper Biophotonics Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America

Timothée Lionnet

timothee.lionnet@einstein.yu.edu

Affiliations Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America, Gruss Lipper Biophotonics Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YC NSH TL. Performed the experiments: YC TL. Analyzed the data: YC TL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QG PP RS TL. Wrote the paper: YC NSH PP RS TL.