About the Authors

Susan Zolla-Pazner

zollas01@nyumc.org

Affiliations Research Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America, Departments of Pathology and Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Allan C. deCamp

Affiliation Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention (SCHARP), Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Timothy Cardozo

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Nicos Karasavvas

Affiliation United States Army Material Command-Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand

Raphael Gottardo

Affiliation Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention (SCHARP), Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Constance Williams

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Daryl E. Morris

Affiliation Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention (SCHARP), Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Georgia Tomaras

Affiliation Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Mangala Rao

Affiliation U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Erik Billings

Affiliation U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Phillip Berman

Affiliation Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Xiaoying Shen

Affiliation Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Charla Andrews

Affiliation U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Robert J. O'Connell

Affiliation U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Viseth Ngauy

Affiliation United States Army Material Command-Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand

Sorachai Nitayaphan

Affiliation United States Army Material Command-Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand

Mark de Souza

Affiliation United States Army Material Command-Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand

Bette Korber

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Richard Koup

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Robert T. Bailer

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

John R. Mascola

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Abraham Pinter

Affiliation Public Health Research Institute, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

David Montefiori

Affiliation Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Barton F. Haynes

Affiliation Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Merlin L. Robb

Affiliation U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Supachai Rerks-Ngarm

Affiliation Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand

Nelson L. Michael

Affiliation U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Peter B. Gilbert

Affiliations Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention (SCHARP), Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jerome H. Kim

Affiliation U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SZP TC NK GT MLR PB RK DEM JRM BFH JHK MdS NLM RJO DM. Performed the experiments: CW EB RTB XS GT CA MR. Analyzed the data: ACdC RG BK PBG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SZP TC NK MLR GT PB AP MdS VN JHK SN SR-N. Wrote the paper: SZP.