About the Authors

Sowmya Sampath

Contributed equally to this work with: Sowmya Sampath, Chris Carrico

Affiliation Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Chris Carrico

Contributed equally to this work with: Sowmya Sampath, Chris Carrico

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Joel Janes

Affiliation Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Sairam Gurumoorthy

Affiliation Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Claire Gibson

Affiliation Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Martin Melcher

Affiliation Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Chetan E. Chitnis

Affiliation International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi, India

Ruobing Wang

Affiliation Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

William R. Schief

schief@scripps.edu (WRS); joseph.smith@sbri.org (JDS)

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Immunology and Microbial Science and IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology and Immunogen Discovery, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Joseph D. Smith

schief@scripps.edu (WRS); joseph.smith@sbri.org (JDS)

Affiliations Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Pathobiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JDS WRS SS CC JJ. Performed the experiments: SS CC JJ SG MM CG CEC RW. Analyzed the data: SS CC JJ MM JDS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS CC CEC JJ SG. Wrote the paper: JDS WRS SS CC.