About the Authors

Somayeh Pouyanfard

Affiliation Department of Virology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Taravat Bamdad

Bamdad_T@modares.ac.ir (TB); kazemi@sbmu.ac.ir (BK)

Affiliation Department of Virology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Hamidreza Hashemi

Affiliation Department of Medical Virology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Mojgan Bandehpour

Affiliations Biotechnology Department, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Cellular and Molecular Research Center (CMRC), School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Bahram Kazemi

Bamdad_T@modares.ac.ir (TB); kazemi@sbmu.ac.ir (BK)

Affiliations Biotechnology Department, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Cellular and Molecular Research Center (CMRC), School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SP TB HH BK. Performed the experiments: SP HH MB. Analyzed the data: SP HH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TB MB BK. Wrote the paper: SP HH TB MB.