About the Authors

Raphael Gottardo

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

Robert T. Bailer

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Bette T. Korber

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Biophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Álamos, New Mexico, United States of America

S. Gnanakaran

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Biophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Álamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Joshua Phillips

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Biophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Álamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Xiaoying Shen

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

Georgia D. Tomaras

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

Ellen Turk

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Gregory Imholte

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

Larry Eckler

Affiliation JPT Peptide Technologies GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Holger Wenschuh

Affiliation JPT Peptide Technologies GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Johannes Zerweck

Affiliation JPT Peptide Technologies GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Kelli Greene

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

Hongmei Gao

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

Phillip W. Berman

Affiliation Baskin School of Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Donald Francis

Affiliation Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Faruk Sinangil

Affiliation Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Carter Lee

Affiliation Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Sorachai Nitayaphan

Affiliation Department of Retrovirology, US Army Medical Component, AFRIMS, Bangkok, Thailand

Supachai Rerks-Ngarm

Affiliation Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand

Jaranit Kaewkungwal

Affiliation Center of Excellence for Biomedical and Public Health Informatics BIOPHICS, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Punnee Pitisuttithum

Affiliation Vaccine Trial Center and Department of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

James Tartaglia

Affiliation Department of Research and Development, Sanofi Pasteur, Swiftwater, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Merlin L. Robb

Affiliation US Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Nelson L. Michael

Affiliation US Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Jerome H. Kim

Affiliation US Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Susan Zolla-Pazner

Affiliations Veterans Affairs New York Harbor Healthcare System, New York, New York, United States of America, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Barton F. Haynes

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

John R. Mascola

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Steve Self

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

Peter Gilbert

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

David C. Montefiori

david.montefiori@duke.edu

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

Competing Interests

Larry Eckler, Holger Wenschuh and Johannes Zerweck are employed by JPT Peptide Technologies and James Tartaglia by Sanofi Pasteur. JPT Peptide Technologies provided the peptide array slides for this work. There are no further 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, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DCM BTK JRM. Performed the experiments: RTB ET XS GDT. Analyzed the data: RG BTK SG JP GI SZP BFH SS PG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LE HW JZ KG HG PWB DF FS CL SN SRN JK PP JT MLR NLM JHK. Wrote the manuscript: DCM RG SG BTK.