About the Authors

Xinping Fu

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Lihua Tao

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Armando Rivera

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Shana Williamson

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Xiao-Tong Song

Affiliation Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Nabil Ahmed

Affiliation Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Xiaoliu Zhang

shaunzhang@uh.edu

Affiliations Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XF XSZ. Performed the experiments: XF LT AR SMW. Analyzed the data: XF AR XSZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XTS NA. Wrote the paper: XF XSZ.