About the Authors

Nelson R. Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Nelson R. Wu, Nathan I. Nicely

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Nathan I. Nicely

Contributed equally to this work with: Nelson R. Wu, Nathan I. Nicely

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Esther M. Lee

Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Rachel K. Reed

Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Brian E. Watts

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Fangping Cai

Roles Investigation

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

William E. Walkowicz

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Chemical Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Baptiste Aussedat

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Chemical Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Julia A. Jones

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Amanda Eaton

Roles Investigation, Project administration

Affiliations Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Ashley M. Trama

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

S. Munir Alam

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation

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

David C. Montefiori

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Barton F. Haynes

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

Kevin O. Saunders

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kevin.saunders@duke.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors declare patent applications on HIV-1 envelope proteins used in the submitted study. B.F.H. has filed International Patent Application PCT/US2004/030397 and National Stage Applications directed to CON-S and use as an immunogen. K.O.S. has a patent pending directed to CON-S and use as an immunogen.