About the Authors

Cinque Soto

Contributed equally to this work with: Cinque Soto, Gilad Ofek, M. Gordon Joyce

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Gilad Ofek

Contributed equally to this work with: Cinque Soto, Gilad Ofek, M. Gordon Joyce

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

M. Gordon Joyce

Contributed equally to this work with: Cinque Soto, Gilad Ofek, M. Gordon Joyce

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Baoshan Zhang

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Krisha McKee

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Nancy S. Longo

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yongping Yang

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jinghe Huang

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland United States of America

Robert Parks

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina United States of America

Joshua Eudailey

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina United States of America

Krissey E. Lloyd

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina United States of America

S. Munir Alam

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina United States of America

Barton F. Haynes

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina United States of America

NISC Comparative Sequencing Program

Membership of the NISC Comparative Sequencing Program is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Affiliation NIH Intramural Sequencing Center, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland United States of America

James C. Mullikin

Affiliation NIH Intramural Sequencing Center, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland United States of America

Mark Connors

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland United States of America

John R. Mascola

pdkwong@nih.gov (PDK); jmascola@nih.gov (JRM); shapiro@convex.hhmi.columbia.edu (LSS)

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Lawrence Shapiro

pdkwong@nih.gov (PDK); jmascola@nih.gov (JRM); shapiro@convex.hhmi.columbia.edu (LSS)

Affiliations Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, United States of America

Peter D. Kwong

pdkwong@nih.gov (PDK); jmascola@nih.gov (JRM); shapiro@convex.hhmi.columbia.edu (LSS)

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CS GO MGJ LS PDK. Performed the experiments: CS GO MGJ BZ YY KM RP JE KEL SMA NSL JCM. Analyzed the data: CS GO MGJ BZ BFH JRM LS PDK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH MC. Wrote the paper: CS GO MGJ LS PDK.