About the Authors

Sandeep Gupta

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Johannes S. Gach

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Juan C. Becerra

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Tran B. Phan

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Jeffrey Pudney

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Zina Moldoveanu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Sarah B. Joseph

Affiliations Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for AIDS Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Gary Landucci

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Medalyn Jude Supnet

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Li-Hua Ping

Affiliations Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for AIDS Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Davide Corti

Affiliations Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland, Humabs BioMed SA, Bellinzona, Switzerland

Brian Moldt

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative Neutralizing Antibody Center and Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology and Immunogen Discovery, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Zdenek Hel

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Antonio Lanzavecchia

Affiliations Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland, Institute of Microbiology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Ruth M. Ruprecht

Affiliation Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Dennis R. Burton

Affiliations Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative Neutralizing Antibody Center and Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology and Immunogen Discovery, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jiri Mestecky

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Institute of Immunology and Microbiology, First School of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Deborah J. Anderson

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Donald N. Forthal

dnfortha@uci.edu

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Davide Corti serves as Senior Vice President and Antonio Lanzavecchia is a scientific advisor for HUMABS BioMed SA. This does not alter our adherence to all PLOS Pathogens policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG JSG JM DJA DNF. Performed the experiments: SG JSG JCB TBP JP ZM SBJ GL MJS LHP DC. Analyzed the data: DJA DNF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZM BM ZH AL RMR DRB JM. Wrote the paper: SG DJA DNF.