About the Authors

Lotte Coelmont

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Xavier Hanoulle

Affiliation Centre National de Recherche Scientifique – Unité Mixte de Recherche 8576, Université de Lille 1, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

Udayan Chatterji

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Carola Berger

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Joke Snoeck

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Michael Bobardt

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Precious Lim

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Inge Vliegen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Jan Paeshuyse

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Grégoire Vuagniaux

Affiliation Pharmacology and Screening Unit, Debiopharm, Lausanne, Switzerland

Anne-Mieke Vandamme

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Ralf Bartenschlager

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Philippe Gallay

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Guy Lippens

Affiliation Centre National de Recherche Scientifique – Unité Mixte de Recherche 8576, Université de Lille 1, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

Johan Neyts

johan.neyts@rega.kuleuven.be

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Competing Interests

Part of this study was sponsored by Debiopharm (Lausanne, Switzerland). G. Vuagniaux is an employee of Debiopharm. The above does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LC XH UC CB MB JP GV RB PG GL JN. Performed the experiments: LC XH UC CB MB PL GL. Analyzed the data: LC XH UC CB MB PL GL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: UC JS MB IV JP AMV RB PG. Wrote the paper: LC XH PG GL JN.