About the Authors

Björn D. Kuhl

Current address: Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliations McGill University AIDS Center, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Experimental Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

Vicky Cheng

Affiliations McGill University AIDS Center, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Experimental Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

Daniel A. Donahue

Affiliations McGill University AIDS Center, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

Richard D. Sloan

Affiliation McGill University AIDS Center, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Chen Liang

Affiliations McGill University AIDS Center, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Experimental Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Canada, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

John Wilkinson

Affiliation Biotron Limited, St Vincent's Centre for Applied Medical Research, Sydney, Australia

Mark A. Wainberg

mark.wainberg@mcgill.ca

Affiliations McGill University AIDS Center, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Experimental Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Canada, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

Competing Interests

One of the authors, Dr. John Wilkinson, is employed by Biotron Limited, St Vincent's Centre for Applied Medical Research, Sydney, Australia. 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: BDK VC DAD RDS CL JW MAW. Analyzed the data: RDS JW MAW CL BDK. Wrote the paper: BDK. Performed almost all of the experiments: BDK. Performed studies relating to flow cytometry: DAD. Performed studies relating to tetherin expression levels: VC. Supervised the project: CL MAW.