About the Authors

Jardin A. Leleux

Contributed equally to this work with: Jardin A. Leleux, Tina C. Albershardt

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

jardin.leleux@gmail.com

Affiliation Immune Design Corp., Seattle, WA, A wholly owned subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, United States of America

Tina C. Albershardt

Contributed equally to this work with: Jardin A. Leleux, Tina C. Albershardt

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

Affiliation Immune Design Corp., Seattle, WA, A wholly owned subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, United States of America

Rebecca Reeves

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Immune Design Corp., Seattle, WA, A wholly owned subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, United States of America

Reice James

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Immune Design Corp., Seattle, WA, A wholly owned subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, United States of America

Jordan Krull

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Immune Design Corp., Seattle, WA, A wholly owned subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, United States of America

Andrea J. Parsons

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Immune Design Corp., Seattle, WA, A wholly owned subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, United States of America

Jan ter Meulen

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Immune Design Corp., Seattle, WA, A wholly owned subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, United States of America

Peter Berglund

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Immune Design Corp., Seattle, WA, A wholly owned subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, United States of America

Competing Interests

All authors were employees of Immune Design at the time of data generation and held stock and/or options in Immune Design at that time. Additionally, all authors were inventors on relevant patent applications assigned to Immune Design for inventions discussed in this paper. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.