About the Authors

Kathleen Kong

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Manish Kumar

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Midori Taruishi

Current address: The Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ronald T. Javier

rjavier@bcm.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KK MK MT RTJ. Performed the experiments: KK MK MT. Analyzed the data: KK MK MT RTJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KK MK MT RTJ. Wrote the paper: RTJ KK.