Identification of variant HIV envelope proteins with enhanced affinities for precursors to anti-gp41 broadly neutralizing antibodies

• Hong Zhu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Zhu, Elizabeth Mathew

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

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• Elizabeth Mathew ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Zhu, Elizabeth Mathew

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

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

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• Sara M. Connelly,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

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• Jeffrey Zuber,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

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• Mark Sullivan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources

  Current address: NeoClone, LLC, Madison, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

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• Michael S. Piepenbrink,

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

  Current address: Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY United States of America

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• James J. Kobie,

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

  Current address: Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY United States of America

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• Mark E. Dumont

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

  * E-mail: Mark_Dumont@urmc.rochester.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9078-523X

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