About the Authors

Elise Landais

Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) Neutralizing Antibody Center, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Xiayu Huang

Affiliation Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Colin Havenar-Daughton

Affiliations La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology (LIAI), La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Ben Murrell

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Matt A. Price

Affiliations IAVI Medical Affairs, New York, New York, United States of America, University of California San Francisco Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Lalinda Wickramasinghe

Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) Neutralizing Antibody Center, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Alejandra Ramos

Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) Neutralizing Antibody Center, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Charoan B. Bian

Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) Neutralizing Antibody Center, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Melissa Simek

Affiliation IAVI Medical Affairs, New York, New York, United States of America

Susan Allen

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Rwanda-Zambia HIV Research Group, Lusaka & Ndola, Zambia

Etienne Karita

Affiliation Rwanda-Zambia HIV Research Group, Project San Francisco, Kigali, Rwanda

William Kilembe

Affiliation Rwanda-Zambia HIV Research Group, Lusaka & Ndola, Zambia

Shabir Lakhi

Affiliation Rwanda-Zambia HIV Research Group, Lusaka & Ndola, Zambia

Mubiana Inambao

Affiliation Rwanda-Zambia HIV Research Group, Lusaka & Ndola, Zambia

Anatoli Kamali

Affiliation MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Masaka & Entebbe, Uganda

Eduard J. Sanders

Affiliations Centre for Geographic Medicine-Coast, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kilifi, Kenya, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Omu Anzala

Affiliation Kenya AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Nairobi, Kenya

Vinodh Edward

Affiliation The Aurum Institute, Parktown, Johannesburg, South Africa

Linda-Gail Bekker

Affiliation Desmond Tutu HIV Center, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Jianming Tang

Affiliation University of Alabama Birmingham, Department of Epidemiology and Department of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Jill Gilmour

Affiliation IAVI Human Immunology Laboratory, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Sergei L. Kosakovsky-Pond

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Pham Phung

Affiliation Monogram Biosciences, Laboratory Corporation of America® Holdings, San Francisco California, United States of America

Terri Wrin

Affiliation Monogram Biosciences, Laboratory Corporation of America® Holdings, San Francisco California, United States of America

Shane Crotty

Affiliations La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology (LIAI), La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America, Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology and Immunogen Discovery (CHAVI-ID), La Jolla, California, United States of America

Adam Godzik

Affiliations Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology and Immunogen Discovery (CHAVI-ID), La Jolla, California, United States of America

Pascal Poignard

ppoignard@iavi.org, poignard@scripps.edu, pascal.poignard@ibs.fr

Current address: Institut de Biologie Structurale, UMR5075 CEA-CNRS, Universite de Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France

Affiliations International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) Neutralizing Antibody Center, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

PPh and TW are employed by a commercial company, Monogram Biosciences, Inc. This affiliation does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS Pathogens policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EL CHD SC PPo. Performed the experiments: EL CHD LW AR CBB PPh TW. Analyzed the data: EL XH CHD BM MAP SLKP PPh TW SC AG PPo. Wrote the paper: EL XH SC PPo. Established the cohort and managed samples and clinical data used in this study: MAP MS SA EK WK SL MI AK EJS OA VE LGB JG. Provided the HLA typing data: JT.