About the Authors

Robert N. Kirchdoerfer

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Sciences, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Crystal L. Moyer

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Sciences, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Dafna M. Abelson

Current address: Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Sciences, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Erica Ollmann Saphire

Erica@scripps.edu

Affiliations Department of Immunology and Microbial Sciences, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

DMA performed this work as employee of TSRI and is now currently employed at Mapp Biopharmaceuticals Inc. which has no overlap with the work presented here. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RNK CLM EOS. Formal analysis: RNK. Funding acquisition: EOS. Investigation: RNK CLM DMA. Methodology: RNK CLM. Project administration: EOS. Resources: EOS. Supervision: EOS. Writing – original draft: RNK. Writing – review & editing: RNK CLM DMA EOS.