About the Authors

Isabel Weinheimer

Contributed equally to this work with: Isabel Weinheimer, Yaming Jiu, Minna-Liisa Rajamäki

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Yaming Jiu

Contributed equally to this work with: Isabel Weinheimer, Yaming Jiu, Minna-Liisa Rajamäki

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Minna-Liisa Rajamäki

Contributed equally to this work with: Isabel Weinheimer, Yaming Jiu, Minna-Liisa Rajamäki

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Olli Matilainen

Affiliation Research Programs Unit, Translational Cancer Biology, and Institute of Biomedicine, Biomedicum Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Jukka Kallijärvi

Current address: Folkhälsan Research Center, Biomedicum Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Wilmer J. Cuellar

Current address: Virology Laboratory, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), AA 6713, Cali, Colombia

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Rui Lu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Mart Saarma

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Carina I. Holmberg

Affiliation Research Programs Unit, Translational Cancer Biology, and Institute of Biomedicine, Biomedicum Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Jussi Jäntti

Affiliations Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo, Finland

Jari P. T. Valkonen

jari.valkonen@helsinki.fi

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IW YJ MLR JK WJC JJ OM RL CIH JPTV. Performed the experiments: IW YJ MLR JK OM WJC. Analyzed the data: IW YJ MLR OM JK WJC RL MS CIH JJ JPTV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IW YJ MLR JK OM RL WJC. Wrote the paper: IW YJ MLR JPTV.