About the Authors

Eri Saijo

Current address: Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases (LPVD), Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIH/NIAID, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America.

Affiliations Prion Research Center (PRC) and Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Hae-Eun Kang

Affiliation Prion Research Center (PRC) and Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Jifeng Bian

Affiliation Prion Research Center (PRC) and Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Kristi G. Bowling

Current address: Rice University Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning, Houston, Texas, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Shawn Browning

Current address: Cytonics, Jupiter, Florida, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Sehun Kim

Affiliation Prion Research Center (PRC) and Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Nora Hunter

Affiliation The Roslin Institute and the University of Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom, and Cellular and Molecular Biology (CMB) Program and Molecular and Cellular Integrated Neuroscience (MCIN) Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Glenn C. Telling

glenn.telling@colostate.edu

Affiliation Prion Research Center (PRC) and Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GCT ES NH. Performed the experiments: ES JB KGB HEK SB SK NH. Analyzed the data: GCT ES JB HEK NH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NH. Wrote the paper: GCT ES JB.