About the Authors

Rajesh Kumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Rajesh Kumar, Suprit Deshpande

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Suprit Deshpande

Contributed equally to this work with: Rajesh Kumar, Suprit Deshpande

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Leigh M. Sewall

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization

Affiliations Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Scripps Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center and the Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Gabriel Ozorowski

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Scripps Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center and the Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Christopher A. Cottrell

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization

Affiliations Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Scripps Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center and the Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Wen-Hsin Lee

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Scripps Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center and the Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Lauren G. Holden

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Scripps Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center and the Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Sara T. Richey

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Scripps Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center and the Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Antra Singh Chandrawacar

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), Chandigarh, India, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, India

Kanika Dhiman

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), Chandigarh, India

Ashish

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), Chandigarh, India, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, India

Vivek Kumar

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Shubbir Ahmed

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Nitin Hingankar

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Naresh Kumar

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Kailapuri G. Murugavel

Roles Resources

Affiliation Y. R. Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education, YRG CARE Laboratory, Rajiv Gandhi Salai, Adyar, Chennai, India

Aylur K. Srikrishnan

Roles Resources

Affiliation Y. R. Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education, YRG CARE Laboratory, Rajiv Gandhi Salai, Adyar, Chennai, India

Devin Sok

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Scripps Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), New York, United States of America

Andrew B. Ward

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation

Affiliations Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Scripps Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center and the Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jayanta Bhattacharya

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

JBhattacharya@iavi.org

Affiliations Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, New Delhi, India; International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: An Indian provisional patent application filed jointly by THSTI and IAVI on the sequence and partial applications of the 1PGE-THIVC (Indian HIV-1 clade C trimer); Provisional Patent Application No: 201911036660 with the following inventors: Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya, Dr. Rajesh Kumar, Mr. Vivek Kumar, Dr. Suprit Despande, Dr. Murugavel Kailapuri Gangatharan.