About the Authors

In-Woo Park

Contributed equally to this work with: In-Woo Park, Jean Ndjomou

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America, Center for AIDS Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

Jean Ndjomou

Contributed equally to this work with: In-Woo Park, Jean Ndjomou

Current address: Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Yahong Wen

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Ziqing Liu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Neale D. Ridgway

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

C. Cheng Kao

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Johnny J. He

johnny.he@unthsc.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America, Center for AIDS Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IWP JN ZL JJH YW CCK. Performed the experiments: IWP JN ZL YW. Analyzed the data: IWP JN ZL JJH NDR CCK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IWP JN ZL JJH NDR CCK. Wrote the manuscript: IWP JN ZL JJH NDR CCK.