About the Authors

Ruben M. Markosyan

Contributed equally to this work with: Ruben M. Markosyan, Chunhui Miao

Affiliation Rush University Medical Center, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Chunhui Miao

Contributed equally to this work with: Ruben M. Markosyan, Chunhui Miao

Affiliation University of Missouri School of Medicine, Bond Life Sciences Center, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Yi-Min Zheng

Affiliation University of Missouri School of Medicine, Bond Life Sciences Center, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Gregory B. Melikyan

Affiliation Emory University Medical School, Department of Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Shan-Lu Liu

liushan@missouri.edu (SLL); Fredric_Cohen@rush.edu (FSC)

Affiliation University of Missouri School of Medicine, Bond Life Sciences Center, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Fredric S. Cohen

liushan@missouri.edu (SLL); Fredric_Cohen@rush.edu (FSC)

Affiliation Rush University Medical Center, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FSC RMM SLL GBM. Performed the experiments: RMM CM YMZ. Analyzed the data: RMM CM YMZ GBM SLL FSC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RMM CM YMZ GBM SSL. Wrote the paper: RMM GBM SLL FSC.