SARS-CoV-2 defective viral genomes from distinct genomic regions drive divergent interferon responses

• Justin W. Brennan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

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• Simone Spandau,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

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• Jiayu Xu,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Xingjian Wang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

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• Haley Aull,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

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• Gaochan Wang,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology (AIR), Department of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

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• Sarah Connor,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Center for Children’s Health Research, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

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• Gloria S. Pryhuber,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

  Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics and Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

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• Thomas J. Mariani,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Center for Children’s Health Research, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

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• Ruth Serra-Moreno,

  Roles Funding acquisition

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

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• Susan R. Weiss,

  Roles Funding acquisition

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Yan Sun

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Yan_Sun@URMC.Rochester.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5320-5793

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