About the Authors

Teymur Kazakov

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Feng Yang

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Harish N. Ramanathan

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Andrew Kohlway

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Michael S. Diamond

Affiliation Departments of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology, and Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Brett D. Lindenbach

brett.lindenbach@yale.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BDL TK. Performed the experiments: BDL TK FY HNR. Analyzed the data: BDL TK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK MSD. Wrote the paper: BDL MSD.