About the Authors

Cheryl A. Stoddart

cheryl.stoddart@ucsf.edu

Affiliation Division of Experimental Medicine, Department of Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Mary E. Keir

Current address: Genentech, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliations Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Joseph M. McCune

Affiliation Division of Experimental Medicine, Department of Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

MEK is an employee of Genentech, the source of the IFN-α neutralizing monoclonal antibody used in this study. The other authors have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CAS MEK JMM. Performed the experiments: CAS MEK. Analyzed the data: CAS MEK. Wrote the paper: CAS MEK JMM.