About the Authors

Marta Rodríguez-García

Current address: The Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliations Services of Immunology, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Institut d'Investigacions Biomediques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS)-AIDS Research Group, and Catalonian Center for HIV Vaccines (HIVACAT), Barcelona, Spain

Núria Climent

Contributed equally to this work with: Núria Climent, Harold Oliva

Affiliations Services of Immunology, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Institut d'Investigacions Biomediques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS)-AIDS Research Group, and Catalonian Center for HIV Vaccines (HIVACAT), Barcelona, Spain

Harold Oliva

Contributed equally to this work with: Núria Climent, Harold Oliva

Affiliations Services of Immunology, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Institut d'Investigacions Biomediques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS)-AIDS Research Group, and Catalonian Center for HIV Vaccines (HIVACAT), Barcelona, Spain

Víctor Casanova

Affiliations Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, University of Barcelona School of Medicine, Barcelona, Spain, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Barcelona, Spain

Rafael Franco

Affiliations Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, University of Barcelona School of Medicine, Barcelona, Spain, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Barcelona, Spain, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigación Médica Aplicada, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

Agathe Leon

Affiliations Institut d'Investigacions Biomediques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS)-AIDS Research Group, and Catalonian Center for HIV Vaccines (HIVACAT), Barcelona, Spain, Infectious Diseases and AIDS Unit, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

José M. Gatell

Affiliations Institut d'Investigacions Biomediques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS)-AIDS Research Group, and Catalonian Center for HIV Vaccines (HIVACAT), Barcelona, Spain, Infectious Diseases and AIDS Unit, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Felipe García

Affiliations Institut d'Investigacions Biomediques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS)-AIDS Research Group, and Catalonian Center for HIV Vaccines (HIVACAT), Barcelona, Spain, Infectious Diseases and AIDS Unit, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Teresa Gallart

TGALLART@clinic.ub.es

Affiliations Services of Immunology, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Institut d'Investigacions Biomediques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS)-AIDS Research Group, and Catalonian Center for HIV Vaccines (HIVACAT), Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TG. Performed the experiments: MRG VC. Analyzed the data: MRG NC HO VC RF AL JMG FG TG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MRG NC HO VC RF AL JMG FG TG. Wrote the paper: MRG TG.