About the Authors

Michael H. Matho

Affiliation Division of Cell Biology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Andrew Schlossman

Affiliation Division of Cell Biology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Xiangzhi Meng

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Mohammed Rafii-El-Idrissi Benhnia

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Seville; and Laboratory of Immunovirology, Unit 211, Biomedicine Institute of Seville (IBIS), Seville, Spain

Thomas Kaever

Affiliation Division of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Mark Buller

Affiliation Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Konstantin Doronin

Affiliation Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Scott Parker

Affiliation Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Bjoern Peters

Affiliation Division of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Shane Crotty

Affiliation Division of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Yan Xiang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Dirk M. Zajonc

dzajonc@liai.org

Affiliation Division of Cell Biology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MHM XM MREIB MB SP BP SC YX DMZ. Performed the experiments: MHM AS XM MREIB KD SP TK. Analyzed the data: MHM AS XM MREIB TK MB KD SP BP SC YX DMZ. Wrote the paper: MHM MREIB SP BP SC YX DMZ.