About the Authors
- Ingeborg Stals
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Affiliations Faculty of Applied Bioscience Engineering, University College Ghent, Ghent, Belgium, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Saeid Karkehabadi
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
- Steve Kim
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Affiliation DuPont Industrial Biosciences, Palo Alto, California, United States of America
- Michael Ward
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Affiliation DuPont Industrial Biosciences, Palo Alto, California, United States of America
- Anita Van Landschoot
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Affiliations Faculty of Applied Bioscience Engineering, University College Ghent, Ghent, Belgium, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Bart Devreese
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Mats Sandgren
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* E-mail: mats.sandgren@slu.se
Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
Competing Interests
Steve Kim and Michael Ward are employed at the company Genencor. 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.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: IS S. Karkehabadi S. Kim MW BD MS. Performed the experiments: IS S. Karkehabadi S. Kim MS. Analyzed the data: IS S. Karkehabadi MW BD AVL MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IS MW BD MS. Wrote the paper: IS S. Karkehabadi S. Kim MW AVL BD MS. Hypocrea jecorina Endo T knock-out strain: S. Kim MW. Glyco-analysis: IS. Overexpression strain: S. Kim MW. Protein purification and characterization: IS BD. Protein crystallization, X-ray diffraction, data collection, refinement: S. Karkehabadi MS. Comparative analysis: IS MS. Phylogenetic analysis: IS AVL.