About the Authors

Hui Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Li, Katharine J. Bar

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Katharine J. Bar

Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Li, Katharine J. Bar

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Shuyi Wang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Julie M. Decker

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Yalu Chen

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Chuanxi Sun

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Jesus F. Salazar-Gonzalez

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Maria G. Salazar

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Gerald H. Learn

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Charity J. Morgan

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Joseph E. Schumacher

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Peter Hraber

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Biophysics (T6), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Elena E. Giorgi

Affiliations Theoretical Biology and Biophysics (T6), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tanmoy Bhattacharya

Affiliations Nuclear and Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology (T-2), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Bette T. Korber

Affiliations Theoretical Biology and Biophysics (T6), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Alan S. Perelson

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Biophysics (T6), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Joseph J. Eron

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Myron S. Cohen

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Charles B. Hicks

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Barton F. Haynes

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Martin Markowitz

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

Brandon F. Keele

Affiliation SAIC-Frederick, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Beatrice H. Hahn

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

George M. Shaw

gshaw@uab.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HL KJB BTK JJE MSC CBH BFH MM BFK BHH GMS. Performed the experiments: HL KJB SW JMD YC CS JFSG MGS. Analyzed the data: HL KJB GHL CJM JES PH EEG TB BTK ASP BFK BHH GMS. Wrote the paper: HL KJB BHH GMS.