About the Authors

Abena K. Kwaa

Affiliation Center for AIDS Research, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kennedy Goldsborough

Current address: Department of Biochemistry, Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia, United States of America.

Affiliation Center for AIDS Research, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Victoria E. Walker-Sperling

Current address: Cancer and Inflammation Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD, United States of America.

Affiliation Center for AIDS Research, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Luiz F. Pianowski

Affiliation Kyolab, Campinas, Brazil

Lucio Gama

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Comparative Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Joel N. Blankson

jblanks@jhmi.edu

Affiliation Center for AIDS Research, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

LFP is a shareholder of KyoLab Laboratories Campinas, Brazil. He also has a contract with Amazonia Fitomedicamentos to develop the ingenol derivatives. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JNB LG. Data curation: AKK KG. Formal analysis: AKK KG VEWS. Funding acquisition: JNB. Investigation: AKK KG. Methodology: AKK KG. Project administration: JNB. Resources: LFP. Software: AKK. Supervision: JNB. Validation: JNB. Visualization: AKK JNB. Writing – original draft: AKK JNB. Writing – review & editing: AKK KG VEWS LG JNB.