About the Authors

Michelle B. Ryndak

Contributed equally to this work with: Michelle B. Ryndak, Krishna K. Singh

Affiliation Department of Pathology, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Krishna K. Singh

Contributed equally to this work with: Michelle B. Ryndak, Krishna K. Singh

Current address: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Tarrytown, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pathology, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Zhengyu Peng

Affiliation Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Susan Zolla-Pazner

Affiliations Veterans Affairs New York Harbor Healthcare System, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Pathology, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Hualin Li

Affiliation Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lu Meng

Affiliation Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Suman Laal

Suman.Laal@nyumc.org

Affiliations Veterans Affairs New York Harbor Healthcare System, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Pathology, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KKS. Performed the experiments: ZP KKS HL LM. Analyzed the data: KKS MBR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL SZP. Wrote the paper: MBR SL.