About the Authors
- Saroj Kumar
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Affiliation School of Natural Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
- Lasse ten Siethoff
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Affiliation School of Natural Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
- Malin Persson
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Affiliation School of Natural Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
- Mercy Lard
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Affiliation The Nanometer Structure Consortium and Division of Solid State Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- Geertruy te Kronnie
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Affiliation Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Padua, Padova, Italy
- Heiner Linke
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Affiliation The Nanometer Structure Consortium and Division of Solid State Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- Alf Månsson
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* E-mail: alf.mansson@lnu.se
Affiliation School of Natural Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts. Alf Månsson is a co-founder, co-owner and CEO of the start-up company ActoSense Biotech AB (Kalmar, Sweden) aiming to develop diagnostic devices based on the aggregation of cytoskeletal elements, particularly actin filaments, in solution. Moreover, A. Månsson holds two Swedish patents in this field and application for one of these patents (about aggregation of actin filaments by analyte molecules) has also been filed in the U.S. and Europe.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AM SK GtK HL. Performed the experiments: SK LtS MP. Analyzed the data: SK AM MP LtS ML. Wrote the paper: AM SK HL LtS ML MP GtK.