About the Authors

Emilio Yángüez

Contributed equally to this work with: Emilio Yángüez, Alicia García-Culebras, Aldo Frau

Affiliation Institute of Medical Virology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Alicia García-Culebras

Contributed equally to this work with: Emilio Yángüez, Alicia García-Culebras, Aldo Frau

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain

Aldo Frau

Contributed equally to this work with: Emilio Yángüez, Alicia García-Culebras, Aldo Frau

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain

Catalina Llompart

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología CSIC, Madrid, Spain, Ciber de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Madrid, Spain

Klaus-Peter Knobeloch

Affiliation Institute of Neuropathology, University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Sylvia Gutierrez-Erlandsson

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Adolfo García-Sastre

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Mariano Esteban

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Amelia Nieto

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología CSIC, Madrid, Spain, Ciber de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Madrid, Spain

Susana Guerra

susana.guerra@uam.es

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG EY AGC CL AN AGS. Performed the experiments: SG EY AGC CL AF SGE. Analyzed the data: SG EY AGC SGE AGS AN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG KPK ME. Wrote the paper: SG.