About the Authors

Zhitao Wan

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China

Yimei Lu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China

Qingjiao Liao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China

Yang Wu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China

Xulin Chen

chenxl@wh.iov.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

A China patent (CN201110317934) associated with this research is pending. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZW XC. Performed the experiments: ZW YL. Analyzed the data: ZW QL YW XC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZW XC. Wrote the paper: ZW XC.