About the Authors

Masahiko Ajiro

Affiliation Tumor Virus RNA Biology Section, HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Rong Jia

Current address: Wuhan University School of Stomatology and Key Laboratory for Oral Biomedicine of Ministry of Education, Hubei, China

Affiliation Tumor Virus RNA Biology Section, HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Lifang Zhang

Current address: Wenzhou Medical College, Zhejiang, China

Affiliation Tumor Virus RNA Biology Section, HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Xuefeng Liu

Current address: Georgetown University Medical School, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Affiliation Tumor Virus RNA Biology Section, HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Zhi-Ming Zheng

zhengt@exchange.nih.gov

Affiliation Tumor Virus RNA Biology Section, HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZMZ MA RJ. Performed the experiments: MA RJ LZ XL. Analyzed the data: MA RJ LZ XL ZMZ. Wrote the paper: MA RJ ZMZ.