About the Authors
- Daniel Harari
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* E-mail: daniel@harari@weizmann.ac.il (DH); gideon.schreiber@weizmann.ac.il (GS)
Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
- Renne Abramovich
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Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
- Alla Zozulya
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Contributed equally to this work with: Alla Zozulya, Paul Smith, Sandrine Pouly
Affiliation MS Platform, Merck-Serono, (a division of Merck KGaA), Geneva, Switzerland
- Paul Smith
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Contributed equally to this work with: Alla Zozulya, Paul Smith, Sandrine Pouly
Affiliation MS Platform, Merck-Serono, (a division of Merck KGaA), Geneva, Switzerland
- Sandrine Pouly
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Contributed equally to this work with: Alla Zozulya, Paul Smith, Sandrine Pouly
Affiliation MS Platform, Merck-Serono, (a division of Merck KGaA), Geneva, Switzerland
- Mario Köster
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Affiliation Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Dept. Gene Regulation and Differentiation, Braunschweig, Germany
- Hansjörg Hauser
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Affiliation Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Dept. Gene Regulation and Differentiation, Braunschweig, Germany
- Gideon Schreiber
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* E-mail: daniel@harari@weizmann.ac.il (DH); gideon.schreiber@weizmann.ac.il (GS)
Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Competing Interests
A number of the authors of this manuscript are/were employed by Merck-Serono. Research performed was funded by Merck-KGaA (the parental company of Merck-Serono). Additionally, the authors declare that the disclosed patented technologies relating to IFN superagonists are associated with patent filings: USA: 60/694,810 and PCT/IL2006/000754 (along with downstream national filings). The authors will openly share their reagents described in this paper with academic institutions. 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: DH SP GS. Performed the experiments: DH RA. Analyzed the data: DH GS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MK HH. Wrote the paper: DH AZ PS SP GS.