About the Authors

Sebastian P. Fuchs

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Institut für Klinische und Molekulare Virologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

José M. Martinez-Navio

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Michael Piatak Jr.

† Deceased.

Affiliation AIDS and Cancer Virus Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Jeffrey D. Lifson

Affiliation AIDS and Cancer Virus Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Guangping Gao

Affiliation Gene Therapy Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ronald C. Desrosiers

r.desrosiers@med.miami.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SPF JMMN RCD. Performed the experiments: SPF JMMN GG MP JDL. Analyzed the data: SPF JMMN GG MP JDL RCD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SPF JMMN GG MP JDL. Wrote the paper: SPF JMMN RCD.