About the Authors

Ebenezer Tumban

etumban@salud.unm.edu (ET); bchackerian@salud.unm.edu (BC)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Julianne Peabody

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Mitchell Tyler

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

David S. Peabody

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Bryce Chackerian

etumban@salud.unm.edu (ET); bchackerian@salud.unm.edu (BC)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

BC, DSP, and ET are listed as inventors on a patent application (“Bacteriophage Virus-Like Particle Vaccines Targeting the Minor Capsid Protein of Human Papillomavirus”) associated with this work. 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: BC ET DSP. Performed the experiments: ET JP MRT. Analyzed the data: ET BC MRT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DSP. Wrote the paper: ET BC.