About the Authors

Mattias N. E. Forsell

Affiliations Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden

Barna Dey

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Andreas Mörner

Affiliation Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden

Krisha Svehla

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sijy O'dell

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Carl-Magnus Högerkorp

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Gerald Voss

Affiliation GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Rixensart, Belgium

Rigmor Thorstensson

Affiliation Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden

George M. Shaw

Affiliation University of Alabama in Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

John R. Mascola

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Gunilla B. Karlsson Hedestam

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden

Richard T. Wyatt

richardwyatt@nih.gov

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

Gerald Voss is an employee of GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MNF GBKH RTW. Performed the experiments: MNF BD AM KS SO. Analyzed the data: MNF BD JRM GBKH RTW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MNF CMH GV RT GMS JRM. Wrote the paper: MNF JRM GBKH RTW.