About the Authors

Eva Maria Fenyö

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Dermatology and Infection, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden

Alan Heath

Affiliation National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Stefania Dispinseri

Affiliation Viral Evolution and Transmission Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Harvey Holmes

Affiliation National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Paolo Lusso

Current address: Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Unit of Human Virology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Susan Zolla-Pazner

Affiliation New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Helen Donners

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Virology Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Leo Heyndrickx

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Virology Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Jose Alcami

Affiliation Unidad de Immunopatologia del SIDA, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Vera Bongertz

Affiliation Laboratory of AIDS and Molecular Immunology, Fundação Oswaldo Crusz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Christian Jassoy

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Mauro Malnati

Affiliation Unit of Human Virology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

David Montefiori

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

Christiane Moog

Affiliation Pathogénie des infections persistantes, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France

Lynn Morris

Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

Saladin Osmanov

Affiliation WHO-UNAIDS HIV Vaccine Initiative (IVR/HVI), World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Victoria Polonis

Affiliation Department of Vaccine Research, Henry Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Quentin Sattentau

Affiliation Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Hanneke Schuitemaker

Affiliation Department of Experimental Immunology, Sanquin Research, Landsteiner Laboratory, Center for Infectious Diseases and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA) at the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Ruengpung Sutthent

Affiliation Faculty of Microbiology, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, National HIV Repository and Bioinformatic Center, Bangkok, Thailand

Terri Wrin

Affiliation Monogram Biosciences Inc, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Gabriella Scarlatti

scarlatti.gabriella@hsr.it

Affiliation Viral Evolution and Transmission Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EMF HH SO GS. Performed the experiments: EMF SD PL HD LH JA VB CJ MSM DCM CM LM VRP QJS HS RS TW GS. Analyzed the data: EMF AH SD GS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HH SZP SO. Wrote the paper: EMF AH HH GS. Complemented and approved the final version of the manuscript: GS EMF AH HH PL SZP HD LH JA VB CJ MSM DCM CM LM SO VRP QJS HS RS TW. Extensive discussion and expertise: GS EMF AH HH PL HD LH JA VB CJ MSM DCM CM LM SO VRP QJS HS RS TW.