About the Authors

Rafael Fenutría

Contributed equally to this work with: Rafael Fenutría, Vanesa G. Martinez

Affiliation Institut d'Investigacions Biomédiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain

Vanesa G. Martinez

Contributed equally to this work with: Rafael Fenutría, Vanesa G. Martinez

Affiliation Institut d'Investigacions Biomédiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain

Inês Simões

Affiliation Institut d'Investigacions Biomédiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain

Jorge Postigo

Affiliation Departamento de Biología Molecular, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain

Victor Gil

Affiliation Servei de Malalties Autoimmunes Sistémiques, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Mario Martínez-Florensa

Affiliation Institut d'Investigacions Biomédiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain

Jordi Sintes

Affiliation Departament de Biologia Cel·lular, Immunologia i Neurociències, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Rodrigo Naves

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Kevin S. Cashman

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

José Alberola-Ila

Affiliation Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Manel Ramos-Casals

Affiliation Servei de Malalties Autoimmunes Sistémiques, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Gloria Soldevila

Affiliation Departamento de Inmunología, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Distrito Federal, México

Chander Raman

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Jesús Merino

Affiliation Departamento de Biología Molecular, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain

Ramón Merino

Affiliations Departamento de Biología Molecular, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain, Instituto de Biomedicina y Biotecnología de Cantabria, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad de Cantabria-SODERCAN, Santander, Spain

Pablo Engel

Affiliation Departament de Biologia Cel·lular, Immunologia i Neurociències, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Francisco Lozano

flozano@clinic.ub.es

Affiliations Institut d'Investigacions Biomédiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain, Departament de Biologia Cel·lular, Immunologia i Neurociències, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Servei d'Immunologia, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors hereby declare that even though this work has been the base for an application for a European Patent (No. n°: 11382172.2 “New compounds derived from scavenger-like lymphocyte receptors for use in immunotherapy”), it does not alter their adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RF VGM JM RM MRC CR GS JAI PE FL. Performed the experiments: RF VGM IS JP VG MMF JS RN KSC JM RM. Analyzed the data: RF VGM IS JP MRC JM RM JAI CR GS PE FL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JM RM CR PE. Wrote the paper: RF VGM MRC JM RM JAI CR GS PE FL.