About the Authors

Pengfei Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Pengfei Jiang, Vladimir Majerciak, Jiafen Hu

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

Current Address: Department of Immunology and Microbiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

Affiliation Tumor Virus RNA Biology Section, The HIV Dynamics and Replication Program, NCI, NIH, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Vladimir Majerciak

Contributed equally to this work with: Pengfei Jiang, Vladimir Majerciak, Jiafen Hu

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

Affiliation Tumor Virus RNA Biology Section, The HIV Dynamics and Replication Program, NCI, NIH, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Jiafen Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Pengfei Jiang, Vladimir Majerciak, Jiafen Hu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Jake Gittlen Laboratories for Cancer Research, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Karla Balogh

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation The Jake Gittlen Laboratories for Cancer Research, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Thomas J. Meyer

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation CCR Collaborative Bioinformatics Resource, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Maggie Cam

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation CCR Collaborative Bioinformatics Resource, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Debra Shearer

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation The Jake Gittlen Laboratories for Cancer Research, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Matthew Lanza

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Comparative Medicine, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Neil D. Christensen

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

ndc1@psu.edu (NDC); zhengt@exchange.nih.gov (Z-MZ)

Affiliation The Jake Gittlen Laboratories for Cancer Research, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Zhi-Ming Zheng

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

ndc1@psu.edu (NDC); zhengt@exchange.nih.gov (Z-MZ)

Affiliation Tumor Virus RNA Biology Section, The HIV Dynamics and Replication Program, NCI, NIH, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.