About the Authors

Gregory C. Ippolito

Affiliation Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Kam Hon Hoi

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Sai T. Reddy

Affiliation Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Sean M. Carroll

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Xin Ge

Affiliation Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Tobias Rogosch

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Philips-University, Marburg, Germany

Michael Zemlin

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Philips-University, Marburg, Germany

Leonard D. Shultz

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Andrew D. Ellington

Affiliation Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Carla L. VanDenBerg

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

George Georgiou

gg@che.utexas.edu

Affiliations Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GCI KHH STR SMC. Performed the experiments: GCI KHH STR CLV. Analyzed the data: ADE GCI KHH STR GG. Wrote the paper: GCI KHH STR GG. Wrote data-mining scripts for repertoire analysis: KHH XG. Developed flow cytometry methods: SMC STR. Wrote and executed data-mining scripts for CDR-H3 and SHM analysis: TR MZ. Provided NOD-scid-IL2Rgnull mice and contributed to editing of the manuscript: LDS. Provided critical advice: ADE. Initiated the project: STR GG.