About the Authors

Laura M. Walker

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Science and IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Melissa D. Simek

Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, New York, New York, United States of America

Frances Priddy

Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, New York, New York, United States of America

Johannes S. Gach

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Science and IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Denise Wagner

Affiliation IAVI AIDS Vaccine Design and Development Laboratory, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Michael B. Zwick

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Science and IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Sanjay K. Phogat

Affiliation IAVI AIDS Vaccine Design and Development Laboratory, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Pascal Poignard

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Science and IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Dennis R. Burton

burton@scripps.edu

Affiliations Department of Immunology and Microbial Science and IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare competing financial interests. LMW, SKP, PP, and DRB are inventors on a patent describing the human broadly neutralizing antibodies PG9 and PG16 (U.S. provisional patent application numbers USSN 61/161,010; USSN 61/165,829; and USSN 61/224,739).

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LMW PP DRB. Performed the experiments: LMW JSG. Analyzed the data: LMW PP DRB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MDS FP DW MBZ SKP DRB. Wrote the paper: LMW DRB.