About the Authors

Christa Buckheit Sturdevant

Current address: Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Sarah B. Joseph

Affiliation Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Gretja Schnell

Current address: AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Richard W. Price

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Ronald Swanstrom

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, UNC Center for AIDS Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Serena Spudich

serena.spudich@yale.edu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CBS SBJ GS RWP RS SS. Performed the experiments: CBS SBJ GS RWP RS SS. Analyzed the data: CBS SBJ GS RWP RS SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CBS SBJ GS RWP RS SS. Wrote the paper: CBS SBJ GS RWP RS SS.