About the Authors

Rosemarie D. Mason

rosemarie.mason@nih.gov (RDM); marior@mail.nih.gov (MR)

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Hugh C. Welles

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Cameron Adams

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Bimal K. Chakrabarti

Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) HIV Vaccine Design Program, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Haryana, India

Jason Gorman

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Tongqing Zhou

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Richard Nguyen

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sijy O’Dell

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sabrina Lusvarghi

Affiliation Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Carole A. Bewley

Affiliation Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Hui Li

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

George M. Shaw

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Zizhang Sheng

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Lawrence Shapiro

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Richard Wyatt

Affiliation IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center, Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Peter D. Kwong

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

John R. Mascola

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Mario Roederer

rosemarie.mason@nih.gov (RDM); marior@mail.nih.gov (MR)

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RDM MR JRM. Performed the experiments: RDM HCW CA RN. Analyzed the data: RDM HCW CA JG ZS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BKC JG TZ SO SL CAB HL GMS LS RW PDK. Wrote the paper: RDM GMS MR JRM.