About the Authors

Eduardo J. M. Nascimento

ejmn@pitt.edu (EJMN); marques@pitt.edu, emarques@cpqam.fiocruz.br (ETAM)

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Robbie B. Mailliard

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Asif M. Khan

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Perdana University Graduate School of Medicine, Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

John Sidney

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

Alessandro Sette

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

Nicole Guzman

Affiliation Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Michael Paulaitis

Affiliation Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Andréa Barbosa de Melo

Affiliation Department of Virology and Experimental Therapy, CPqAM/FIOCRUZ, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Marli T. Cordeiro

Affiliation Department of Virology and Experimental Therapy, CPqAM/FIOCRUZ, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Laura V. G. Gil

Affiliation Department of Virology and Experimental Therapy, CPqAM/FIOCRUZ, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Françoir Lemonnier

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Unité Immunité Cellulaire Antivirale, Paris, France

Charles Rinaldo

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

J. Thomas August

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ernesto T. A. Marques Jr

ejmn@pitt.edu (EJMN); marques@pitt.edu, emarques@cpqam.fiocruz.br (ETAM)

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Virology and Experimental Therapy, CPqAM/FIOCRUZ, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EJMN RBM CR JTA ETAM. Performed the experiments: EJMN RBM JS AS NG MP ABdM. Analyzed the data: EJMN RBM AMK CR JTA ETAM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MTC LVGG FL. Wrote the paper: EJMN RBM AMK JTA ETAM.