About the Authors

Rogier W. Sanders

rws2002@med.cornell.edu (RWS); jpm2003@med.cornell.edu (JPM)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Medical Microbiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Ronald Derking

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Albert Cupo

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Jean-Philippe Julien

Affiliation Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center and CHAVI-ID, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Anila Yasmeen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Natalia de Val

Affiliation Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center and CHAVI-ID, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Helen J. Kim

Affiliation Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center and CHAVI-ID, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Claudia Blattner

Affiliation Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center and CHAVI-ID, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Alba Torrents de la Peña

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Jacob Korzun

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Michael Golabek

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Kevin de los Reyes

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Thomas J. Ketas

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Marit J. van Gils

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

C. Richter King

Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, New York, New York, United States of America

Ian A. Wilson

Affiliations Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center and CHAVI-ID, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Andrew B. Ward

Affiliation Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center and CHAVI-ID, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

P. J. Klasse

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

John P. Moore

rws2002@med.cornell.edu (RWS); jpm2003@med.cornell.edu (JPM)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: A patent application on BG505 SOSIP.664 gp140. This does not alter our adherence to all PLoS Pathogens policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RWS RD JPJ CRK IAW ABW PJK JPM. Performed the experiments: RD AC JPJ AY NdV HJK CB ATdlP JK MG KdlR TJK. Analyzed the data: RWS RD JPJ AC JPJ MJvG ABW PJK. Wrote the paper: RWS RD JPJ IAW ABW PJK JPM.