About the Authors

Xiaobao Ying

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaobao Ying, Sayanta Bera

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Sayanta Bera

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaobao Ying, Sayanta Bera

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Jinyuan Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Roberto Toscano-Morales

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Chanyong Jang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Stephen Yang

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Silvec Biologics, Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Jovia Ho

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Silvec Biologics, Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Anne E. Simon

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

simona@umd.edu

Affiliations Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Silvec Biologics, Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

JL and AES are on the CY1 (CYVaV) patent PCT/US19/60945 filed November 2019. AES is also a co-founder of Silvec Biologics, which has licensed the CY1 technology from the University of Maryland for development of a virus induced gene silencing vector, and has a financial interest in its success. SY is a Principal Research Scientist and JH is a Research Technician at Silvec Biologics and have a financial interest in its success.