About the Authors

Claudio Ciferri

ciferric@gene.com (CC); andrea.x.carfi@gsk.com (AC)

Current Address: Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines (a GSK company), Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sumana Chandramouli

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines (a GSK company), Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alexander Leitner

Affiliation ETH Zürich, Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Zürich, Switzerland

Danilo Donnarumma

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines (a GSK company), Siena, Italy

Michael A. Cianfrocco

Affiliations Harvard University, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Department of Cell Biology, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rachel Gerrein

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines (a GSK company), Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kristian Friedrich

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines (a GSK company), Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yukti Aggarwal

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines (a GSK company), Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Giuseppe Palladino

Current Address: Novartis Influenza Vaccines, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines (a GSK company), Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ruedi Aebersold

Affiliations ETH Zürich, Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Zürich, Switzerland, Faculty of Science, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Nathalie Norais

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines (a GSK company), Siena, Italy

Ethan C. Settembre

Current Address: Novartis Influenza Vaccines, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines (a GSK company), Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andrea Carfi

ciferric@gene.com (CC); andrea.x.carfi@gsk.com (AC)

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines (a GSK company), Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: AC, SC, RG, KF, DD, NN are GSK employees. This does not alter our adherence to all PLOS policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CC SC GP ECS AC. Performed the experiments: SC RG YA DD KF GP CC AL MAC. Analyzed the data: RA AL CC SC GP KF YA ECS NN DD MAC AC. Wrote the paper: CC SC AC.