About the Authors

Eike Steinmann

¤ Current address: TWINCORE, Center for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, Hannover, Germany

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Francois Penin

Affiliation Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, UMR 5086 CNRS, Université Lyon 1, IFR 128 BioSciences Lyon-Gerland, Lyon, France

Stephanie Kallis

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Arvind H Patel

Affiliation Medical Research Council Virology Unit, Institute of Virology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Ralf Bartenschlager

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Thomas Pietschmann

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: [email protected]

¤ Current address: TWINCORE, Center for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, Hannover, Germany

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

ES, FP, RB, and TP conceived and designed the experiments and analyzed the data. ES and SK performed the experiments. ES, FP, AHP, RB, and TP contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. TP wrote the paper.