About the Authors

Matteo Porotto

Map2028@med.Cornell.edu (MP); anm2047@med.Cornell.edu (AM)

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics and of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Barry Rockx

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology, Division of Intramural research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Christine C. Yokoyama

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics and of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Aparna Talekar

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics and of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Ilaria DeVito

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics and of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Laura M. Palermo

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics and of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Jie Liu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Riccardo Cortese

Affiliation CEINGE, Naples, Italy

Min Lu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Heinz Feldmann

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology, Division of Intramural research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Antonello Pessi

Affiliation PeptiPharma, Rome, Italy

Anne Moscona

Map2028@med.Cornell.edu (MP); anm2047@med.Cornell.edu (AM)

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics and of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

Matteo Porotto and Anne Moscona comment on published articles for Faculty of 1000 (virology section).

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MP BR LMP JL RC ML HF AP AM. Performed the experiments: MP BR CCY AT ID LMP JL. Analyzed the data: MP BR CCY AT ID LMP JL RC ML HF AP AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MP LMP RC HF AM. Wrote the paper: MP CCY ML HF AP AM.