About the Authors

Gonzalo Almanza

Contributed equally to this work with: Gonzalo Almanza, Alex E. Clark, Valentina Kouznetsova

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation The Laboratory of Immunology, Department of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Alex E. Clark

Contributed equally to this work with: Gonzalo Almanza, Alex E. Clark, Valentina Kouznetsova

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

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Valentina Kouznetsova

Contributed equally to this work with: Gonzalo Almanza, Alex E. Clark, Valentina Kouznetsova

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

Affiliation San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Eduardo Olmedillas

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Andrea Castro

Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Biomedical Informatics Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Igor F. Tsigelny

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Yan Wu

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

George F. Gao

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Sandra L. Leibel

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States of America

William Bray

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Center for Drug Discovery Innovation, Program in Immunology, Institute for Genomic Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Erica Ollmann Saphire

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Aaron F. Carlin

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

acarlin@health.ucsd.edu (AFC); mzanetti@health.ucsd.edu (MZ)

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Maurizio Zanetti

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

acarlin@health.ucsd.edu (AFC); mzanetti@health.ucsd.edu (MZ)

Affiliation The Laboratory of Immunology, Department of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

We have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: MZ is named inventor in US patent 8,372,640 that relates to the protein engineering process and method of immunization used in this work. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.