Exosomes serve as novel modes of tick-borne flavivirus transmission from arthropod to human cells and facilitates dissemination of viral RNA and proteins to the vertebrate neuronal cells

• Wenshuo Zhou,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2820-2507

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• Michael Woodson,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8612-4527

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• Biswas Neupane,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, United States of America

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• Fengwei Bai,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, United States of America

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• Michael B. Sherman,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

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• Kyung H. Choi,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

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• Girish Neelakanta,

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

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States of America, Center for Molecular Medicine, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States of America

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• Hameeda Sultana

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hsultana@odu.edu

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States of America, Center for Molecular Medicine, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5682-3108

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