About the Authors

Xiaohong Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaohong Zhou, Sean L. Evans, Xue Han

Affiliations Institute of Virology and AIDS Research, First Affiliated Hospital of Jilin University, Jilin, People's Republic of China, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Sean L. Evans

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaohong Zhou, Sean L. Evans, Xue Han

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Xue Han

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaohong Zhou, Sean L. Evans, Xue Han

Affiliations Institute of Virology and AIDS Research, First Affiliated Hospital of Jilin University, Jilin, People's Republic of China, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Yayan Liu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Xiao-Fang Yu

xfyu@jhsph.edu

Affiliations Institute of Virology and AIDS Research, First Affiliated Hospital of Jilin University, Jilin, People's Republic of China, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XFY XZ SLE. Performed the experiments: XZ SLE XH YL. Analyzed the data: XZ SLE XH XFY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XZ SLE XFY. Wrote the paper: XZ SLE XFY.