About the Authors

Siddappa N. Byrareddy

siddappa.n.byrareddy@emory.edu

Current address: Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Affiliations Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mila Ayash-Rashkovsky

Affiliations Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Victor G. Kramer

Affiliation Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sandra J. Lee

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mick Correll

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Cancer Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Francis J. Novembre

Affiliations Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Francois Villinger

Affiliations Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Welkin E. Johnson

Affiliation Biology Department, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Agneta von Gegerfelt

Affiliation Human Retrovirus Pathogenesis Section, Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Barbara K. Felber

Affiliation Human Retrovirus Pathogenesis Section, Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Ruth M. Ruprecht

Current address: Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Affiliations Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr Welkin Johnson is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member and his role does not alter the authors' adherence to all of the PLOS ONE policies.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SNB MAR RMR. Performed the experiments: SNB MAR WEJ VGK. Analyzed the data: SNB MAR VGK MC SJL WEJ FV RMR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AVG BKF. Wrote the manuscript: SNB FV RMR. Managed the primate experiments: FV FJN.