About the Authors

Madhusudan Rajendran

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

Weina Sun

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

Phillip Comella

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

Raffael Nachbagauer

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

Teddy John Wohlbold

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

Fatima Amanat

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

Ericka Kirkpatrick

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

Peter Palese

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

Florian Krammer

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

florian.krammer@mssm.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

Competing Interests

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has filed patent applications regarding influenza virus vaccines. While not directly pertinent to patent 'Influenza virus vaccines and uses thereof' (WO2013043729A1), work presented here could facilitate development of vaccines described in this patent. This study was partially funded by a commercial entity, GlaxoSmithKline. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.