About the Authors

Madeleine White

Contributed equally to this work with: Madeleine White, Gill Webster

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Gill Webster

Contributed equally to this work with: Madeleine White, Gill Webster

Affiliation Innate Immunotherapeutics, Auckland, New Zealand

David O’Sullivan

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Sarrabeth Stone

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Anne Camille La Flamme

anne.laflamme@vuw.ac.nz

Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, Malaghan Institute of Medical Research, Wellington, New Zealand

Competing Interests

The authors can affirm that they have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflicts. GW is an employee of Innate Immunotherapeutics, which is commercializing MIS416 as an immune modulator for secondary progressive multiple sclerosis. However, this does not alter their adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MW GW DO ACL. Performed the experiments: MW GW DO SS ACL. Analyzed the data: MW GW DO SS ACL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GW. Wrote the paper: MW GW ACL.