About the Authors

Yorihiro Nishimura

ynishi@nih.go.jp (YN); winkler@sas.upenn.edu (JDW); bergelson@email.chop.edu (JMB)

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Musashimurayama-shi, Tokyo, Japan

Noel P. McLaughlin

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jieyan Pan

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sara Goldstein

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Susan Hafenstein

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Hiroyuki Shimizu

Affiliation Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Musashimurayama-shi, Tokyo, Japan

Jeffrey D. Winkler

ynishi@nih.go.jp (YN); winkler@sas.upenn.edu (JDW); bergelson@email.chop.edu (JMB)

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jeffrey M. Bergelson

ynishi@nih.go.jp (YN); winkler@sas.upenn.edu (JDW); bergelson@email.chop.edu (JMB)

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YN NPM SH JDW JMB. Performed the experiments: YN NPM JP SG. Analyzed the data: YN NPM HS JDW JMB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YN NPM SG SH HS JDW JMB. Wrote the paper: YN HS JDW JMB.