About the Authors

Michael C. Brown

mbrown@sdix.com

Affiliation Research and Development, SDIX, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Tony R. Joaquim

Affiliation Research and Development, SDIX, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Ross Chambers

Affiliation Research and Development, SDIX, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Dale V. Onisk

Affiliation Research and Development, SDIX, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Fenglin Yin

Affiliation Research and Development, SDIX, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Janet M. Moriango

Affiliation Research and Development, SDIX, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Yichun Xu

Affiliation Research and Development, SDIX, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

David A. Fancy

Affiliation Antigen Design Laboratory, SDIX, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Erin L. Crowgey

Affiliation Antigen Design Laboratory, SDIX, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Yida He

Affiliation BioProcessing Department, SDIX, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

James W. Stave

Affiliation Research and Development, SDIX, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Klaus Lindpaintner

Affiliation Research and Development, SDIX, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Competing Interests

All authors are employed by SDIX, a company that specializes in antibody production and assay development. SDIX routinely uses all of the antigenic approaches, peptide, DNA immunization, and full length proteins, for our customers, with peptide generated antibodies being the majority, and has no commercial bias in the results of this study. There are no 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 guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MCB TRJ RC DVO DAF JWS KL. Performed the experiments: MCB TRJ JMM YX ELC YH. Analyzed the data: FY. Wrote the paper: MCB TRJ RC KL.