About the Authors

Maya F. Kotturi

Affiliation Division of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jason Botten

Affiliation Vermont Center for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, The University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

John Sidney

Affiliation Division of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Huynh-Hoa Bui

Affiliation Division of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Lori Giancola

Affiliation Division of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Matt Maybeno

Affiliation Division of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Josie Babin

Affiliation Division of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Carla Oseroff

Affiliation Division of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Valerie Pasquetto

Affiliation Division of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jason A. Greenbaum

Affiliation Division of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Bjoern Peters

Affiliation Division of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Joey Ting

Affiliation Departments of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and Community and Environmental Medicine, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America

Danh Do

Affiliation Vermont Center for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, The University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Lo Vang

Current address: PaxVax, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Affiliation Pharmexa-Epimmune, San Diego, California, United States of America

Jeff Alexander

Current address: PaxVax, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Affiliation Pharmexa-Epimmune, San Diego, California, United States of America

Howard Grey

Affiliation Division of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Michael J. Buchmeier

Affiliation Departments of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and Community and Environmental Medicine, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America

Alessandro Sette

alex@liai.org

Affiliation Division of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MFK JB VP HG MJB AS. Performed the experiments: MFK LG MM CO. Analyzed the data: MFK JS HHB LG MM JAG BP HG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JB JS HHB JB JAG BP JT DD LV JA MJB. Wrote the paper: MFK AS.