About the Authors

Meron Mengistu

mmengistu@ihv.umaryland.edu (MM); adevico@ihv.umaryland.edu (ALD)

Affiliation The Institute of Human Virology of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Krishanu Ray

Affiliation Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

George K. Lewis

Affiliation The Institute of Human Virology of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Anthony L. DeVico

mmengistu@ihv.umaryland.edu (MM); adevico@ihv.umaryland.edu (ALD)

Affiliation The Institute of Human Virology of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM ALD GKL. Performed the experiments: MM KR. Analyzed the data: MM ALD KR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MM KR ALD GKL. Wrote the paper: MM ALD.