About the Authors

Matthew Zirui Tay

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthew Zirui Tay, Pinghuang Liu, LaTonya D. Williams

Affiliations Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Pinghuang Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthew Zirui Tay, Pinghuang Liu, LaTonya D. Williams

Affiliations Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute (HVRI), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

LaTonya D. Williams

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthew Zirui Tay, Pinghuang Liu, LaTonya D. Williams

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Michael D McRaven

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Sheetal Sawant

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Thaddeus C Gurley

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Thomas T. Xu

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

S. Moses Dennison

Affiliations Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Hua-Xin Liao

Affiliations Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Agnès-Laurence Chenine

Affiliation US Military HIV-1 Research Program, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

S. Munir Alam

Affiliations Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

M. Anthony Moody

Affiliations Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Thomas J. Hope

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Barton F. Haynes

Affiliations Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Immunology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Georgia D. Tomaras

gdt@duke.edu

Affiliations Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Immunology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MZT PL LDW TCG TTX SMD MAM TJH GDT. Performed the experiments: MZT PL LDW TCG TTX. Analyzed the data: MZT PL LDW SS GDT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MDM HXL ALC SMA MAM TJH BFH. Wrote the paper: MZT PL LDW SS TTX GDT.