About the Authors

Adel Benlahrech

Members of a Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD) consortium.

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Andrea Meiser

Members of a Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD) consortium.

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Shanthi Herath

Members of a Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD) consortium.

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Timos Papagatsias

Members of a Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD) consortium.

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Takis Athanasopoulos

Members of a Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD) consortium.

Affiliation School of Biological Science, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom

Fucheng Li

Affiliation Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Steve Self

Affiliation Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Veronique Bachy

Members of a Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD) consortium.

Affiliation Peter Gorer Department of Immunobiology, Guys Hospital, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom

Catherine Hervouet

Members of a Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD) consortium.

Affiliation Peter Gorer Department of Immunobiology, Guys Hospital, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom

Karen Logan

Current address: Emergent BioSolutions, Emergent Product Development UK Ltd., Wokingham, United Kingdom

Members of a Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD) consortium.

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Linda Klavinskis

Members of a Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD) consortium.

Affiliation Peter Gorer Department of Immunobiology, Guys Hospital, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom

George Dickson

Members of a Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD) consortium.

Affiliation School of Biological Science, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom

Steven Patterson

s.patterson@imperial.ac.uk

Members of a Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD) consortium.

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

One of the authors, Karen Logan, is now employed at a commercial company Emergent BioSolutions, but her contributions to the work described in this manuscript were made while an employee of Imperial College. The company has never had or has any interests commercial or otherwise in this manuscript. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB FL SS LK GD SP. Performed the experiments: AB AM SH TP TA. Analyzed the data: AB AM KL LK GD SP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM TP TA SS FL. Wrote the paper: AB AM SH TP TA VB CH KL LK GD SP.