About the Authors

Antu K. Dey

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Brian Burke

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yide Sun

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Klara Sirokman

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Avishek Nandi

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Karin Hartog

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ying Lian

Current address: Gilead Sciences, Foster City, California, United States of America

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Anthony R. Geonnotti

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

David Montefiori

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

Michael Franti

Current address: Boehringer Ingelheim Canada Ltd, Quebec, Canada

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Grégoire Martin

Affiliation CEA, iBiTecS, Service d'Ingénierie Moléculaire des Protéines, Gif sur Yvette, France

Andrea Carfi

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Pascal Kessler

Affiliation CEA, iBiTecS, Service d'Ingénierie Moléculaire des Protéines, Gif sur Yvette, France

Loïc Martin

Affiliation CEA, iBiTecS, Service d'Ingénierie Moléculaire des Protéines, Gif sur Yvette, France

Indresh K. Srivastava

Current address: VRC/NIAI, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Susan W. Barnett

susan.barnett@novartis.com

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

AKD, BB, YS, KS, AN, KH, AC and SWB are employees of Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics (NVD); AC and SWB are shareholders of NVD. 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: AKD IKS MF SWB. Performed the experiments: AKD YS KS AN KH YL ARG GM. Analyzed the data: AKD BB IKS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ARG DM PK LM. Wrote the paper: AKD BB IKS AC SWB.