About the Authors

Hong Seok Choi

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Vaibhav Jain

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Brian Krueger

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Vickie Marshall

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

Chang Hee Kim

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

Joanna L. Shisler

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Denise Whitby

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

Rolf Renne

rrenne@ufl.edu

Affiliations Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, UF Health Cancer Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, UF Institute of Genetics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RR DW HSC. Performed the experiments: HSC VM CHK. Analyzed the data: RR HSC CHK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JLS. Wrote the paper: RR HSC DW. Constructed the KSHV recombinants: VJ BK.