About the Authors
- Egídio Torrado
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Affiliation Trudeau Institute Inc., Saranac Lake, New York, United States of America
- Jeffrey J. Fountain
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Affiliation Trudeau Institute Inc., Saranac Lake, New York, United States of America
- Richard T. Robinson
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Current address: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
Affiliation Trudeau Institute Inc., Saranac Lake, New York, United States of America
- Cynthia A. Martino
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Affiliation Trudeau Institute Inc., Saranac Lake, New York, United States of America
- John E. Pearl
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Affiliation Trudeau Institute Inc., Saranac Lake, New York, United States of America
- Javier Rangel-Moreno
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Affiliation Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America
- Michael Tighe
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Affiliation Trudeau Institute Inc., Saranac Lake, New York, United States of America
- Robert Dunn
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Current address: Pfizer-Centers for Therapeutic Innovation, San Diego, California, United States of America
Affiliation Biogen Idec, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, and San Diego, California, United States of America
- Andrea M. Cooper
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* E-mail: acooper@trudeauinstitute.org
Affiliation Trudeau Institute Inc., Saranac Lake, New York, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have the following interests. Author RD is employed by Pfizer-Center for Therapeutic Innovation and was previously employed by Biogen-Idec. Biogen-Idec provided the anti-CD20 used in this study under an MTA agreement for research purposes, and while they reviewed the manuscript prior to submission they did not ask the authors to make any changes to the interpretation of the science nor the text of the manuscript. 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.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: ET RTR JR-M RD AMC. Performed the experiments: ET JJF CAM JEP JR-M MT. Analyzed the data: ET AMC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RD. Wrote the paper: ET JR-M RD AMC.