About the Authors

Ernst Weber

Contributed equally to this work with: Ernst Weber, Carola Engler

Affiliation Icon Genetics GmbH, Halle/Saale, Germany

Carola Engler

Contributed equally to this work with: Ernst Weber, Carola Engler

Affiliation Icon Genetics GmbH, Halle/Saale, Germany

Ramona Gruetzner

Affiliation Icon Genetics GmbH, Halle/Saale, Germany

Stefan Werner

Affiliation Icon Genetics GmbH, Halle/Saale, Germany

Sylvestre Marillonnet

marillonnet@icongenetics.de

Affiliation Icon Genetics GmbH, Halle/Saale, Germany

Competing Interests

EW, CE, RG, SW and SM are employees of Icon Genetics GmbH. Icon Genetics GmbH has filed a patent application on the vector system presented in this article. 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: SM. Performed the experiments: EW CE RG SW. Wrote the paper: EW SM.