About the Authors

Tong Wang

Affiliations Center for Neurovirology and Neurodegenerative Disorders, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America, Institute for Tissue Transplantation and Immunology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Nan Gong

Affiliation Center for Neurovirology and Neurodegenerative Disorders, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Jianuo Liu

Affiliation Center for Neurovirology and Neurodegenerative Disorders, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Irena Kadiu

Affiliation Center for Neurovirology and Neurodegenerative Disorders, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Stephanie D. Kraft-Terry

Affiliation Center for Neurovirology and Neurodegenerative Disorders, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

R. Lee Mosley

Affiliation Center for Neurovirology and Neurodegenerative Disorders, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

David J. Volsky

Affiliation Molecular Virology Division, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center and Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Pawel Ciborowski

Affiliation Center for Neurovirology and Neurodegenerative Disorders, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Howard E. Gendelman

hegendel@unmc.edu

Affiliation Center for Neurovirology and Neurodegenerative Disorders, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HG. Performed the experiments: TW NG JL IK SK. Analyzed the data: HG PC RM TW IK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DV PC NG JL IK SK. Wrote the paper: HG DV RM TW.