About the Authors

Sabyasachi Halder

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Abramson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Tumor virology Program, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Masanao Murakami

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Abramson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Tumor virology Program, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Subhash C. Verma

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Abramson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Tumor virology Program, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Pankaj Kumar

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Abramson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Tumor virology Program, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Fuming Yi

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Abramson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Tumor virology Program, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Erle S. Robertson

erle@mail.med.upenn.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Abramson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Tumor virology Program, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH ESR. Performed the experiments: SH FY. Analyzed the data: SH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH MM SCV PK ESR. Wrote the paper: SH ESR.