About the Authors

Gustaf Ahlén

Contributed equally to this work with: Gustaf Ahlén, Lena Strindelius

gustaf.ahlen@ki.se

Affiliation Recopharma AB, Stockholm, Sweden

Lena Strindelius

Contributed equally to this work with: Gustaf Ahlén, Lena Strindelius

Affiliation Recopharma AB, Stockholm, Sweden

Tomas Johansson

Affiliation Recopharma AB, Stockholm, Sweden

Anki Nilsson

Affiliation Recopharma AB, Stockholm, Sweden

Nathalie Chatzissavidou

Affiliation Recopharma AB, Stockholm, Sweden

Magnus Sjöblom

Affiliation Biochemical and Chemical Process Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden

Ulrika Rova

Affiliation Biochemical and Chemical Process Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden

Jan Holgersson

Affiliation Clinical Chemistry and Transfusion Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg, Sweden

Competing Interests

JH is acting CEO, board member and shareholder of Recopharma AB. At the time of the study, GA, LS, TJ, AN, and NC were employees of Recopharma. MS has been partly funded by Recopharma through a research grant to LTU. The technology described in the manuscript has been patent-sought by Recopharma, “Production of Human Glycosylated Proteins in Yeast and Methods of Use Thereof” (United States application number 11/626156. Filing date 23-Jan-2007.) (WO application number PCT/IB2007/004164. Filing date 23-Jan-2007.) 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: GA LS JH UR. Performed the experiments: GA LS TJ NC MS. Analyzed the data: GA LS TJ JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TJ AN NC MS. Wrote the paper: GA LS TJ MS JH.