About the Authors

Lusine Demirkhanyan

Current address: Department of Cancer Biology & Pharmacology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Emory University Children's Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Mariana Marin

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Emory University Children's Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Wuyuan Lu

Affiliation Institute of Human Virology and Department of Biochemistry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Gregory B. Melikyan

gmeliki@emory.edu

Affiliations Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Emory University Children's Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GBM. Performed the experiments: LD MM. Analyzed the data: LD WL GBM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WL. Wrote the paper: GBM LD MM WL.