About the Authors

Rajesh Ramakrishnan

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

Hart Donahue

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

David Garcia

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

Jie Tan

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

Norio Shimizu

Affiliation Department of Virology, Division of Virology & Immunology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Andrew P. Rice

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

Paul D. Ling

pling@bcm.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology & 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: RR APR PDL. Performed the experiments: RR HD DG JT PDL. Analyzed the data: RR HD DG JT PDL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NS. Wrote the paper: RR APR PDL.