About the Authors

Keqing Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Keqing Wang, Peter Hampson

Affiliation MRC Centre for Immune Regulation, Institute of Biomedical Research, Birmingham University Medical School, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Peter Hampson

Contributed equally to this work with: Keqing Wang, Peter Hampson

Affiliation MRC Centre for Immune Regulation, Institute of Biomedical Research, Birmingham University Medical School, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Jon Hazeldine

Affiliation MRC Centre for Immune Regulation, Institute of Biomedical Research, Birmingham University Medical School, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Vladimir Krystof

Affiliation Laboratory of Growth Regulators, Institute of Experimental Botany ASCR and Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

Miroslav Strnad

Affiliation Laboratory of Growth Regulators, Institute of Experimental Botany ASCR and Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

Paul Pechan

Affiliation C3Bio Ltd, Munich, Germany

Janet M.

J.M.Lord@bham.ac.uk

Affiliation MRC Centre for Immune Regulation, Institute of Biomedical Research, Birmingham University Medical School, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Paul Pechan is a director of C3Bio, which holds the patent for the use of LGR1406 as an anti-inflammatory agent (PCT/EP03/03207 filed in 2003). 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: JML PP MS. Performed the experiments: PH KW JH. Analyzed the data: PH KW JML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VK MS. Wrote the paper: JML.