About the Authors

Dionysios C. Watson

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Human Retrovirus Section, Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Eirini Moysi

Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Human Retrovirus Section, Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Antonio Valentin

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Human Retrovirus Section, Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Cristina Bergamaschi

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Human Retrovirus Pathogenesis Section; Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Santhi Devasundaram

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Human Retrovirus Pathogenesis Section; Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Sotirios P. Fortis

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Human Retrovirus Section, Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Jenifer Bear

Roles Resources

Affiliation Human Retrovirus Pathogenesis Section; Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Elena Chertova

Roles Resources

Affiliation AIDS and Cancer Virus Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Julian Bess Jr.

Roles Resources

Affiliation AIDS and Cancer Virus Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Ray Sowder

Roles Resources

Affiliation AIDS and Cancer Virus Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

David J. Venzon

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Biostatistics and Data Management Section, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Claire Deleage

Roles Investigation

Affiliation AIDS and Cancer Virus Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Jacob D. Estes

Roles Investigation

Affiliation AIDS and Cancer Virus Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Jeffrey D. Lifson

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation AIDS and Cancer Virus Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Constantinos Petrovas

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Barbara K. Felber

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Human Retrovirus Pathogenesis Section; Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

George N. Pavlakis

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

George.pavlakis@nih.gov

Affiliation Human Retrovirus Section, Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: GNP, CB, AV and BKF are inventors on US Government-owned patents. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests.