About the Authors

Steven M. Offer

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Qiang Pan-Hammarström

Affiliation Division of Clinical Immunology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet at Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

Lennart Hammarström

Affiliation Division of Clinical Immunology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet at Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

Reuben S. Harris

rsh@umn.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SMO QPH LH RSH. Performed the experiments: SMO QPH. Analyzed the data: SMO QPH LH RSH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SMO QPH LH RSH. Wrote the paper: SMO RSH. Edited the paper: QPH LH.