About the Authors
- Holger Thie
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Contributed equally to this work with: Holger Thie, Lars Toleikis
Current address: Miltenyi Biotec GmbH, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Affiliation Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institut für Biochemie und Biotechnologie, Braunschweig, Germany
- Lars Toleikis
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Contributed equally to this work with: Holger Thie, Lars Toleikis
Current address: Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
Affiliation Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institut für Biochemie und Biotechnologie, Braunschweig, Germany
- Jiandong Li
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Current address: Department for Viral Hemorrhagic Fever, National Institute for Viral Diseases Control and Prevention (China CDC), Beijing, China
Affiliation Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institut für Biochemie und Biotechnologie, Braunschweig, Germany
- Reinhard von Wasielewski
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Current address: Bad Münder, Germany
Affiliation Hannover Medical School, Institute of Pathology, Hannover, Germany
- Gunther Bastert
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Current address: Mannheim, Germany
Affiliation Universitätsfrauenklinik Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Thomas Schirrmann
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Affiliation Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institut für Biochemie und Biotechnologie, Braunschweig, Germany
- Isabel Tourais Esteves
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Affiliation LFB Biotechnologies - Research Department, Lille, France
- Christian K. Behrens
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Affiliation LFB Biotechnologies - Research Department, Lille, France
- Bénédict Fournes
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Affiliation LFB Biotechnologies - Research Department, Lille, France
- Nathalie Fournier
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Affiliation LFB Biotechnologies - Research Department, Lille, France
- Christophe de Romeuf
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Affiliation LFB Biotechnologies - Research Department, Lille, France
- Michael Hust
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Affiliation Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institut für Biochemie und Biotechnologie, Braunschweig, Germany
- Stefan Dübel
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* E-mail: s.duebel@tu-bs.de
Affiliation Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institut für Biochemie und Biotechnologie, Braunschweig, Germany
Competing Interests
Isabel Tourais Esteves, Christian K. Behrens, Bénédict Fournes, Nathalie Fournier and Christophe de Romeuf are employees of LFB Biotechnologies, Holger Thie is employed by Miltenyi Biotec GmbH and Lars Toleikis is employed by Merck KGaA. The authors Holger Thie, Lars Toleikis, Thomas Schirrmann, Christian K. Behrens (LFB), Christophe de Romeuf (LFB), Michael Hust and Stefan Dübel are inventors on a patent application regarding anti-MUC1 antibodies (PCT/EP2009/005218). This study was partly financed by LFB. 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: HT LT RvW TS ITE CKB BF NF CdR MH SD. Performed the experiments: HT LT JL RvW ITE BF NF. Analyzed the data: HT LT JL RvW TS ITE CKB BF NF CdR MH SD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GB. Wrote the paper: LT HT CKB MH SD.