About the Authors
- Brian C. Geyer
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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
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Affiliation School of Life Sciences and The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America
- Jacquelyn Kilbourne
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Affiliation School of Life Sciences and The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America
- Latha Kannan
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Affiliation School of Life Sciences and The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America
- Tsafrir S. Mor
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* E-mail: 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.