About the Authors

Lu Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Lu Sun, You Li

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

You Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Lu Sun, You Li

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Ichiro Misumi

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Genetics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Olga González-López

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Lucinda Hensley

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

John M. Cullen

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

David R. McGivern

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: CBER, FDA, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliations Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Mami Matsuda

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Ryosuke Suzuki

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Ganes C. Sen

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Inflammation and Immunity, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Asuka Hirai-Yuki

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

Affiliation Management Department of Biosafety and Laboratory Animal, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Musashimurayama-shi, Tokyo, Japan

Jason K. Whitmire

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Genetics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Stanley M. Lemon

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

smlemon@med.unc.edu

Affiliations Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare that no competing interests exist.