About the Authors

Leike Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Texas Therapeutics Institute, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Weixu Meng

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Current address: Gehr Leukemia Center, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Affiliation Texas Therapeutics Institute, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Melanie Horton

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Vaccines Research, Merck Research Laboratories, Merck and Co. Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, United States of America

Daniel R. DiStefano

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Vaccines Research, Merck Research Laboratories, Merck and Co. Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, United States of America

Elizabeth A. Thoryk

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Vaccines Research, Merck Research Laboratories, Merck and Co. Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, United States of America

Jennifer M. Pfaff

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Integral Molecular, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Qihui Wang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliations Texas Therapeutics Institute, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, CAS Key Laboratory of Microbial Physiological and Metabolic Engineering, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Georgina T. Salazar

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Texas Therapeutics Institute, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Trevor Barnes

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Integral Molecular, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Benjamin J. Doranz

Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Integral Molecular, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Andrew J. Bett

Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Vaccines Research, Merck Research Laboratories, Merck and Co. Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, United States of America

Danilo R. Casimiro

Roles Resources, Supervision

Current address: Sanofi Pasteur, Swiftwater, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Vaccines Research, Merck Research Laboratories, Merck and Co. Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, United States of America

Kalpit A. Vora

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

kalpit.vora@merck.com (KV); zhiqiang.An@uth.tmc.edu (ZA); ningyan.zhang@uth.tmc.edu (NZ)

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Vaccines Research, Merck Research Laboratories, Merck and Co. Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, United States of America

Zhiqiang An

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kalpit.vora@merck.com (KV); zhiqiang.An@uth.tmc.edu (ZA); ningyan.zhang@uth.tmc.edu (NZ)

Affiliation Texas Therapeutics Institute, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ningyan Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kalpit.vora@merck.com (KV); zhiqiang.An@uth.tmc.edu (ZA); ningyan.zhang@uth.tmc.edu (NZ)

Affiliation Texas Therapeutics Institute, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Some of the coauthors are employees of Merck Co. Inc.; JMP, TB, and BJD are employees of Integral Molecular; and BJD is a shareholder of Integral Molecular.