About the Authors

Jo-Anne Chan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Burnet Institute, Life Sciences, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Department of Immunology, Central Clinical School, Monash University, VIC, Australia

David Wetzel

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations ARTES Biotechnology GmbH, Langenfeld, Germany, Technical University of Dortmund, Laboratory of Plant and Process Design, Dortmund, Germany

Linda Reiling

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliation Burnet Institute, Life Sciences, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Kazutoyo Miura

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Damien R. Drew

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Burnet Institute, Life Sciences, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Paul R. Gilson

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Burnet Institute, Life Sciences, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

David A. Anderson

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Burnet Institute, Life Sciences, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Jack S. Richards

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Burnet Institute, Life Sciences, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Carole A. Long

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Manfred Suckow

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation ARTES Biotechnology GmbH, Langenfeld, Germany

Volker Jenzelewski

Roles Methodology

Affiliation ARTES Biotechnology GmbH, Langenfeld, Germany

Takafumi Tsuboi

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Proteo-Science Centre, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan

Michelle J. Boyle

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Immunology Department, QIMR-Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Herston, QLD, Australia

Michael Piontek

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation ARTES Biotechnology GmbH, Langenfeld, Germany

James G. Beeson

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

beeson@burnet.edu.au

Affiliations Burnet Institute, Life Sciences, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Department of Immunology, Central Clinical School, Monash University, VIC, Australia, Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors DW, MS, VJ and MP are associated with ARTES Biotechnology GmbH which owns the license for the VLP technology. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.