About the Authors

Supranee Buranapraditkun

Contributed equally to this work with: Supranee Buranapraditkun, Ursula Hempel

Affiliations Vaccine and Cellular Immunology Laboratory, Chulalongkorn Medical Research Center (ChulaMRC), and Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, Interdisciplinary Program of Medical Microbiology, Graduate School, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Ursula Hempel

Contributed equally to this work with: Supranee Buranapraditkun, Ursula Hempel

Affiliation Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Patrawadee Pitakpolrat

Affiliation Vaccine and Cellular Immunology Laboratory, Chulalongkorn Medical Research Center (ChulaMRC), and Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Rachel L. Allgaier

Affiliation Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Pattarawat Thantivorasit

Affiliation Vaccine and Cellular Immunology Laboratory, Chulalongkorn Medical Research Center (ChulaMRC), and Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Sven-Iver Lorenzen

Affiliation Vaccine and Cellular Immunology Laboratory, Chulalongkorn Medical Research Center (ChulaMRC), and Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Sunee Sirivichayakul

Affiliation Vaccine and Cellular Immunology Laboratory, Chulalongkorn Medical Research Center (ChulaMRC), and Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

William H. Hildebrand

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Health Sciences Center, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Marcus Altfeld

Affiliation Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christian Brander

Affiliation AIDS Research Institute IrsiCaixa - HIVACAT, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, and Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain

Bruce D. Walker

Affiliation Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Praphan Phanuphak

Affiliations Vaccine and Cellular Immunology Laboratory, Chulalongkorn Medical Research Center (ChulaMRC), and Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Center, Bangkok, Thailand

Pokrath Hansasuta

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Sarah L. Rowland-Jones

Affiliation Medical Research Council, Human Immunology Unit, Weather all Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

Todd M. Allen

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kiat Ruxrungtham

kiat.r@chula.ac.th

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Vaccine and Cellular Immunology Laboratory, Chulalongkorn Medical Research Center (ChulaMRC), and Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Center, Bangkok, Thailand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB UH BW TA KR. Performed the experiments: SB UH PP RA PT SL SS WH. Analyzed the data: SB UH WH MA CB BW TA KR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PP PH SR. Wrote the paper: SB UH TA KR.