About the Authors

Michael Vaine

Affiliation Laboratory of Nucleic Acid Vaccines, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Shixia Wang

Affiliation Laboratory of Nucleic Acid Vaccines, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Qin Liu

Affiliation Division of Preventive and Behavior Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

James Arthos

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

David Montefiori

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

Paul Goepfert

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

M. Juliana McElrath

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Shan Lu

shan.lu@umassmed.edu

Affiliation Laboratory of Nucleic Acid Vaccines, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MV SW DCM SL. Performed the experiments: MV. Analyzed the data: MV SW QL SL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JA. Wrote the paper: MV SW SL. Sample collection: PAG MJE.