About the Authors

Victoria R. Tenge

Contributed equally to this work with: Victoria R. Tenge, Anshu P. Gounder

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Anshu P. Gounder

Contributed equally to this work with: Victoria R. Tenge, Anshu P. Gounder

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Mayim E. Wiens

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Wuyuan Lu

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

Jason G. Smith

jgsmith2@uw.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VRT APG MEW WL JGS. Performed the experiments: VRT APG MEW JGS. Analyzed the data: VRT APG MEW JGS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: APG WL JGS. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: VRT JGS.