About the Authors

Yueting Zheng

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Thomas Stamminger

Affiliation Institute for Clinical and Molecular Virology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Patrick Hearing

patrick.hearing@stonybrook.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ PH. Performed the experiments: YZ PH. Analyzed the data: YZ PH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TS. Wrote the paper: YZ PH. Expert advice: TS.