About the Authors

Dabin Ren

Current address: Division of Basic Medical Sciences, Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, Georgia, United States of America

Affiliation Vaccine Research Section, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Hang Xie

Affiliation Laboratory of Respiratory Viral Diseases, Office of Vaccines Research and Review, Division of Viral Products, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Wenhong Zhang

Affiliation Vaccine Research Section, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Ferdaus Hassan

Current address: Shock/Trauma Center, Medical School (UMKC), University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Affiliation Vaccine Research Section, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Ronald S. Petralia

Affiliation Section on Neurotransmitter Receptor Biology, NIDCD, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Shengqing Yu

Current address: Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, China

Affiliation Vaccine Research Section, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

David J. Lim

Affiliation Section on Pathogenesis of Ear Diseases, House Ear Institute, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Xin-Xing Gu

guxx@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Vaccine Research Section, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: X-XG DR HX. Performed the experiments: DR HX WZ FH RSP X-XG. Analyzed the data: DR HX X-XG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: X-XG HX RSP SY DJL. Wrote the paper: DR HX X-XG.