About the Authors

Hugh C. Welles

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

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Hannah A. D. King

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

Affiliations Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Leonard Nettey

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Nicole Cavett

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jason Gorman

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Tongqing Zhou

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yaroslav Tsybovsky

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center Electron Microscopy Unit, Cancer Research Technology Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Renguang Du

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Kaimei Song

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Richard Nguyen

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

David Ambrozak

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Amy Ransier

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Chaim A. Schramm

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Nicole A. Doria-Rose

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Adrienne E. Swanstrom

Roles Investigation

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

James A. Hoxie

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Celia LaBranche

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

David C. Montefiori

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Daniel C. Douek

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Peter D. Kwong

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

John R. Mascola

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Mario Roederer

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Rosemarie D. Mason

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

rosemarie.mason@nih.gov

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.