About the Authors
- Kihyuck Kwak
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Rosie Jiang
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Subhashini Jagu
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Joshua W. Wang
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Chenguang Wang
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Neil D. Christensen
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Affiliation Departments of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Penn State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Richard B. S. Roden
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* E-mail: roden@jhmi.edu
Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts. Subhashini Jagu and Richard Roden are co-inventors on L2 patents (20090047301 Papillomavirus L2 N-Terminal Peptides for the Induction of Broadly Cross-Neutralizing Antibodies and 20100297144 MULTITYPE HPV PEPTIDE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATMENT OR PREVENTION OF HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION) licensed to Shantha Biotechnics Ltd., GlaxoSmithKline, PaxVax, Inc. and Acambis, Inc and have received research funding from Shantha Biotechnics Ltd., Sanofi Pasteur and GlaxoSmithKline and Richard Roden is a founder of Papivax LLC. The terms of these arrangements are managed by Johns Hopkins University in accordance with its conflict of interest policies. 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: KK, NDC, RBSR. Performed the experiments: KK, RJ, SJ, JWW. Analyzed the data: CW, KK, RJ, SJ, JWW, RBSR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KK, CW, NDC, RBSR. Wrote the paper: KK, CW, NDC, RBSR.