About the Authors

Mourad Belhouchet

Affiliations Vector-Borne Viral Diseases Programme, Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright, United Kingdom, Division of Structural Biology, Henry Wellcome Building for Genomic Medicine, Oxford, United Kingdom

Fauziah Mohd Jaafar

Affiliation Vector-Borne Viral Diseases Programme, Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright, United Kingdom

Andrew E. Firth

Affiliation Division of Virology, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jonathan M. Grimes

Affiliation Division of Structural Biology, Henry Wellcome Building for Genomic Medicine, Oxford, United Kingdom

Peter P. C. Mertens

Affiliation Vector-Borne Viral Diseases Programme, Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright, United Kingdom

Houssam Attoui

houssam.attoui@iah.ac.uk

Affiliation Vector-Borne Viral Diseases Programme, Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

Mourad Belhouchet is partly supported by Pfizer. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter all authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB FMJ HA. Performed the experiments: MB FMJ HA. Analyzed the data: MB FMJ AEF JMG PPCM HA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB FMJ HA. Wrote the paper: MB FMJ AEF JMG PPCM HA.