About the Authors

Kai Xu

Affiliation Structural Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Barry Rockx

Affiliation Sealy Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pathology and Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Yihu Xie

Affiliation Structural Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Blair L. DeBuysscher

Affiliations Laboratory of Virology, National Institutes of Health, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America, Division of Biological Sciences and the University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, United States of America

Deborah L. Fusco

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Zhongyu Zhu

Affiliation Protein Interactions Group, CCRNP, CCR, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Yee-Peng Chan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yan Xu

Affiliation Structural Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Truong Luu

Affiliations Naval Medical Research Center, NMRC-Frederick, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Regina Z. Cer

Affiliations Naval Medical Research Center, NMRC-Frederick, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Heinz Feldmann

Affiliations Laboratory of Virology, National Institutes of Health, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Vishwesh Mokashi

Affiliation Naval Medical Research Center, NMRC-Frederick, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Dimiter S. Dimitrov

Affiliation Protein Interactions Group, CCRNP, CCR, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Kimberly A. Bishop-Lilly

Affiliations Naval Medical Research Center, NMRC-Frederick, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Christopher C. Broder

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Dimitar B. Nikolov

nikolovd@mskcc.org

Affiliation Structural Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

CCB, ZZ, DSD, and VM are United States federal employees and this work was prepared as part of their official duties. Title 17 U.S.C. §105 provides that ‘Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government.’ Title 17 U.S.C. §101 defines a U.S. Government work as a work prepared by a military service member or employee of the U.S. Government as part of that person's official duties. DSD, ZZ and CCB are coinventors on United States patent 7,988,971, Human monoclonal antibodies against Hendra and Nipah viruses; assignees are The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, DC), Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Bethesda, MD). All other authors declare no competing interests. The opinions or assertions contained herein are the private ones of the author(s) and are not to be construed as official or reflecting the views of the Department of the Navy, Department of Defense, the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, nor the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KX BR BLD KABL CCB DBN. Performed the experiments: KX BR BLD YXi YXu TL RZC VM. Analyzed the data: KX BR YXi YXu BLD DLF ZZ YPC HF DSD KABL CCB DBN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZZ DSD. Wrote the manuscript: KX BR DLF KABL CCB DBN.