About the Authors

Sakaorat Lertjuthaporn

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

jarthos@niaid.nih.gov (JA); sakaorats55@gmail.com (SL)

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Department of Research and Development, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Claudia Cicala

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

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Donald Van Ryk

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

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Matthew Liu

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

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Jason Yolitz

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Danlan Wei

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Fatima Nawaz

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Allison Doyle

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Brooke Horowitch

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Chung Park

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Shan Lu

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America

Yang Lou

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America

Shixia Wang

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America

Ruimin Pan

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America

Xunqing Jiang

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America

Francois Villinger

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation New Iberia Research Center and Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, United States of America

Siddappa N. Byrareddy

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, United States of America

Philip J. Santangelo

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Lynn Morris

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for HIV and STIs, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), University of KwaZulu-Natal, Congella, South Africa

Constantinos Kurt Wibmer

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for HIV and STIs, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Kristin Biris

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Rosemarie D. Mason

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

Jason Gorman

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

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

Joseph Hiatt

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Elena Martinelli

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

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Research, Population Council, New York, NY, United States of America

Mario Roederer

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

Dai Fujikawa

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Animal Models and Vaccine Section, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Giacomo Gorini

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Animal Models and Vaccine Section, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Genoveffa Franchini

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Animal Models and Vaccine Section, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Anush Arakelyan

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Section on Intercellular Interactions, Eunice Kennedy-Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Aftab A. Ansari

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Kovit Pattanapanyasat

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Research and Development, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Xiang-Peng Kong

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

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America

Anthony S. Fauci

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

James Arthos

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jarthos@niaid.nih.gov (JA); sakaorats55@gmail.com (SL)

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: JA, CC and ASF are inventors of patent 20160075786 submitted by the NIAID, NIH that covers the study of reagents that serve as antagonists of the interaction between HIV gp120 and α4β7 mAb. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.