About the Authors

Federica Crostarosa

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Research, Population Council, New York, New York, United States of America

Meropi Aravantinou

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Research, Population Council, New York, New York, United States of America

Onome J. Akpogheneta

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Research, Population Council, New York, New York, United States of America

Edith Jasny

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Research, Population Council, New York, New York, United States of America

Andrew Shaw

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Research, Population Council, New York, New York, United States of America

Jessica Kenney

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Research, Population Council, New York, New York, United States of America

Michael Piatak Jr.

Affiliation AIDS and Cancer Virus Program, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Jeffrey D. Lifson

Affiliation AIDS and Cancer Virus Program, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Aaron Teitelbaum

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Research, Population Council, New York, New York, United States of America

Lieyu Hu

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Research, Population Council, New York, New York, United States of America

Anne Chudolij

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Research, Population Council, New York, New York, United States of America

Thomas M. Zydowsky

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Research, Population Council, New York, New York, United States of America

James Blanchard

Affiliation Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

Agegnehu Gettie

Affiliation Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Melissa Robbiani

mrobbiani@popcouncil.org

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Research, Population Council, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MR. Performed the experiments: FC MA OJA EJ AS JK MPJ AT LH AC TZ JB AG. Analyzed the data: FC MA OJA EJ AS JK MR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MPJ JDL AT LH AC TZ JB AG. Wrote the paper: FC MR. Significantly edited paper: JDL.