About the Authors

Víctor Casanova

Contributed equally to this work with: Víctor Casanova, Isaac Naval-Macabuhay, Rafael Franco, Núria Climent, Peter J. McCormick

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Isaac Naval-Macabuhay

Contributed equally to this work with: Víctor Casanova, Isaac Naval-Macabuhay, Rafael Franco, Núria Climent, Peter J. McCormick

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Marta Massanella

Affiliation Fundació irsiCaixa-HIVACAT, Institut d’Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain

Marta Rodríguez-García

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, Dartmouth Medical School Lebanon, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

Julià Blanco

Affiliation Fundació irsiCaixa-HIVACAT, Institut d’Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain

José M. Gatell

Affiliation Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS)-AIDS Research Group, and Catalonian Center for HIV Vaccines (HIVACAT), Barcelona, Spain

Felipe García

Affiliations Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS)-AIDS Research Group, and Catalonian Center for HIV Vaccines (HIVACAT), Barcelona, Spain, Infectious Diseases and AIDS Unit, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Teresa Gallart

Affiliations Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS)-AIDS Research Group, and Catalonian Center for HIV Vaccines (HIVACAT), Barcelona, Spain, Service of Immunology, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Carme Lluis

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Josefa Mallol

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Rafael Franco

Contributed equally to this work with: Víctor Casanova, Isaac Naval-Macabuhay, Rafael Franco, Núria Climent, Peter J. McCormick

Current address: Centro de Investigación Médica Aplicada (CIMA), University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Núria Climent

Contributed equally to this work with: Víctor Casanova, Isaac Naval-Macabuhay, Rafael Franco, Núria Climent, Peter J. McCormick

Affiliation Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS)-AIDS Research Group, and Catalonian Center for HIV Vaccines (HIVACAT), Barcelona, Spain

Peter J. McCormick

Contributed equally to this work with: Víctor Casanova, Isaac Naval-Macabuhay, Rafael Franco, Núria Climent, Peter J. McCormick

pmccormick@ub.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VC INM MRG JB TG CL NC PJM. Performed the experiments: VC INM MRG MM. Analyzed the data: VC INM JB FG TG CL NC PJM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMG FG JB JM RF. Wrote the paper: VC CL PJM.