About the Authors

Alyson C. Yoder

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America

Kejun Guo

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America, RNA Bioscience Initiative, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America

Stephanie M. Dillon

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America

Tzu Phang

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America, The Cancer Center, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America

Eric J. Lee

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America

Michael S. Harper

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America

Karen Helm

Affiliation The Cancer Center, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America

John C. Kappes

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America, Center for AIDS Research, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Christina Ochsenbauer

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America, Center for AIDS Research, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Martin D. McCarter

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America

Cara C. Wilson

mario.santiago@ucdenver.edu (MLS); cara.wilson@ucdenver.edu (CCW)

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America, RNA Bioscience Initiative, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America

Mario L. Santiago

mario.santiago@ucdenver.edu (MLS); cara.wilson@ucdenver.edu (CCW)

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America, RNA Bioscience Initiative, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MLS CCW ACY. Data curation: KG TP ACY SMD MLS. Formal analysis: KG TP ACY SMD MLS. Funding acquisition: MLS CCW. Investigation: ACY KG SMD EJL TP MSH KH. Methodology: ACY KG EJL SMD MSH. Project administration: MLS CCW. Resources: TP SMD JCK CO MDM. Software: KG TP. Supervision: MLS CCW. Validation: ACY KG TP SMD EJL. Visualization: MLS ACY SMD KG. Writing – original draft: ACY MLS CCW. Writing – review & editing: ACY MLS CCW SMD JCK CO.