About the Authors

Natalia Guerra-Pérez

Contributed equally to this work with: Natalia Guerra-Pérez, Meropi Aravantinou

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Research, Population Council, New York, New York, United States of America

Meropi Aravantinou

Contributed equally to this work with: Natalia Guerra-Pérez, Meropi Aravantinou

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Research, Population Council, New York, New York, United States of America

Filippo Veglia

Current address: Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Research, Population Council, New York, New York, United States of America

Diana Goode

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Research, Population Council, New York, New York, United States of America

Rosaline Truong

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Research, Population Council, New York, New York, United States of America

Nina Derby

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Research, Population Council, New York, New York, United States of America

James Blanchard

Affiliation Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

Brooke Grasperge

Affiliation Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

Agegnehu Gettie

Affiliation Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Melissa Robbiani

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Research, Population Council, New York, New York, United States of America

Elena Martinelli

emartinelli@popcouncil.org

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Research, Population Council, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MR EM. Performed the experiments: NGP FV DG RT ND. Analyzed the data: NGP MA EM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MR EM. Wrote the paper: MA MR EM. Performed the in vivo studies: JB BG AG.