About the Authors

Marika Orlov

Affiliations Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Florin Vaida

Affiliation Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Olivia C. Finney

Affiliation Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

David M. Smith

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Angela K. Talley

Affiliation Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Ruobing Wang

Affiliation Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Stefan H. Kappe

Affiliation Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Qianqian Deng

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Robert T. Schooley

rschooley@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Patrick E. Duffy

Affiliations Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Laboratory of Malaria Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

Robert T. Schooley is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Gilead Sciences. A consulting fee from Gilead Sciences was sent on to the University of California to be used in an unrestricted fashion for research and educational activities that are not covered by other sources. Ms. Orlov is a graduate student, and Dr. Schooley has used, in part, the funds from his role as a member of Gilead’s SAB to pay for her stipend and for some of the laboratory resources used for this work. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MO FV OCF DMS AKT RW SHK RTS PED. Performed the experiments: MO OCF DMS AKT. Analyzed the data: MO FV QD RTS PED. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DMS RW SHK RTS PED. Wrote the paper: MO RTS PED. Critical edits: FV OCF DMS AKT RW SHK RTS PED.