About the Authors

Li-Hua Ping

Contributed equally to this work with: Li-Hua Ping, Cassandra B. Jabara

Affiliation Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Cassandra B. Jabara

Contributed equally to this work with: Li-Hua Ping, Cassandra B. Jabara

Current address: Abbott Molecular, Inc., Des Plaines, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Allen G. Rodrigo

Affiliation National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Sarah E. Hudelson

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Estelle Piwowar-Manning

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Lei Wang

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Susan H. Eshleman

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Myron S. Cohen

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, UNC Center For AIDS Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Ronald Swanstrom

risunc@med.unc.edu

Affiliations UNC Center For AIDS Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SHE MSC RS AGR. Performed the experiments: L-HP CBJ SEH EP-M. Analyzed the data: L-HP CBJ AGR SEH EP-M LW SHE MSC RS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CBJ AGR SEH EP-M LW SHE MSC. Wrote the paper: L-HP CBJ AGR SEH EP-M LW SHE MSC RS.