About the Authors

Brian C. Geyer

Current address: Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine, Residency, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Katherine E. Larrimore

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Jacquelyn Kilbourne

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Latha Kannan

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Tsafrir S. Mor

tsafrir.mor@asu.edu

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

TM, BG, LK and KL are inventors on the following patent applications relating to plant-production of BChE: (1) TM and BG, "PRODUCTION AND USE OF HUMAN BUTYRYLCHOLINESTERASE." U.S. Patent Application 11/792,985, filed December 1 2005; (2) TM and BG, "PRODUCTION AND USE OF HUMAN BUTYRYLCHOLINESTERASE." WIPO Patent 2007040568, issued April 13, 2007; (3) LK, KL and TM, (2011) "Rapid & Large-Scale Plant-based, patent application filed with the US Patent Office. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the journal's guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BG TM. Performed the experiments: BG JK KL LK. Analyzed the data: BG KL TM. Wrote the paper: BG KL LK TM.