About the Authors
- Robert M. Valente
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Affiliation Arthritis Center of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
- Erica Ehlers
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Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
- Dongsheng Xu
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Current address: Tongji University, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
- Humera Ahmad
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Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
- Andrew Steadman
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Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
- Laura Blasnitz
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Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
- You Zhou
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Affiliations Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America, Center for Biotechnology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
- Lisa Kastanek
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Affiliation Arthritis Center of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
- Bin Meng
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Shandong University School of Medicine, Jinan, Shandong, People's Republic of China
- Luwen Zhang
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* E-mail: lzhang2@unlnotes.unl.edu
Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America, Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
Competing Interests
The corresponding author, Dr. Luwen Zhang, is a PLoS ONE Editorial Board member. 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: LZ DX. Performed the experiments: RMV EE DX HA AS LB YZ LK BM. Analyzed the data: LZ RMV DX BM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RMV LK. Wrote the paper: LZ.