About the Authors

Yoav Peretz

Affiliations Caprion/ImmuneCarta Services, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Centre de Recherche du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Hôpital St-Luc, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Laboratoire d'Immunologie, Département de Microbiologie et d'Immunologie, Université de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Zhong He

Affiliation Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute Florida, Port St. Lucie, Florida, United States of America

Yu Shi

Affiliation Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute Florida, Port St. Lucie, Florida, United States of America

Bader Yassine-Diab

Affiliations Centre de Recherche du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Hôpital St-Luc, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Laboratoire d'Immunologie, Département de Microbiologie et d'Immunologie, Université de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Jean-Philippe Goulet

Affiliations Centre de Recherche du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Hôpital St-Luc, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Laboratoire d'Immunologie, Département de Microbiologie et d'Immunologie, Université de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Rebeka Bordi

Affiliation Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute Florida, Port St. Lucie, Florida, United States of America

Ali Filali-Mouhim

Affiliation Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute Florida, Port St. Lucie, Florida, United States of America

Jean-Baptiste Loubert

Affiliations Centre de Recherche du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Hôpital St-Luc, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Laboratoire d'Immunologie, Département de Microbiologie et d'Immunologie, Université de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Mohamed El-Far

Affiliations Centre de Recherche du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Hôpital St-Luc, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Laboratoire d'Immunologie, Département de Microbiologie et d'Immunologie, Université de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Franck P. Dupuy

Affiliation Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute Florida, Port St. Lucie, Florida, United States of America

Mohamed Rachid Boulassel

Affiliation Immunodeficiency Service and Division of Hematology, Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Cécile Tremblay

Affiliations Centre de Recherche du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Hôpital St-Luc, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Laboratoire d'Immunologie, Département de Microbiologie et d'Immunologie, Université de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Jean-Pierre Routy

Affiliation Immunodeficiency Service and Division of Hematology, Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Nicole Bernard

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Robert Balderas

Affiliation BD Biosciences, San Diego, California, United States of America

Elias K. Haddad

Contributed equally to this work with: Elias K. Haddad, Rafick-Pierre Sékaly

Affiliations Centre de Recherche du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Hôpital St-Luc, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Laboratoire d'Immunologie, Département de Microbiologie et d'Immunologie, Université de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute Florida, Port St. Lucie, Florida, United States of America

Rafick-Pierre Sékaly

Contributed equally to this work with: Elias K. Haddad, Rafick-Pierre Sékaly

rpsekaly@vgtifl.org

Affiliations Centre de Recherche du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Hôpital St-Luc, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Laboratoire d'Immunologie, Département de Microbiologie et d'Immunologie, Université de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute Florida, Port St. Lucie, Florida, United States of America, Department of Experimental Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U743, CRCHUM, Université de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Y. Peretz, E.K. Haddad, R-P. Sekaly. Performed the experiments: Y. Peretz, Z. He, Y. Shi, F.P. Dupuy, J-B. Loubert, M. El-Far, R. Bordi. Analyzed the data: Y. Peretz, J-P. Goulet, A. Filali-Mouhim. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: R. Balderas, B. Yassine-Diab, N. Bernard, C. Tremblay, J-P. Routy, M.R. Boulassel. Wrote the paper: Y. Peretz, R-P. Sekaly.