About the Authors

Nicholas Funderburg

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicholas Funderburg, Angel A. Luciano

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Angel A. Luciano

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicholas Funderburg, Angel A. Luciano

Affiliations Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Center for AIDS Research, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals/Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Wei Jiang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Center for AIDS Research, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals/Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Benigno Rodriguez

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Center for AIDS Research, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals/Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Scott F. Sieg

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Center for AIDS Research, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals/Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Michael M. Lederman

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: michael.lederman@case.edu

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Center for AIDS Research, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals/Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ML WJ NF AL SS. Performed the experiments: NF AL. Analyzed the data: ML WJ BR NF AL SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ML WJ NF AL. Wrote the paper: ML NF AL SS.