About the Authors

Wy Ching Ng

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Victor Wong

Affiliation Immuron Limited, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Brian Muller

Affiliation Immuron Limited, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Grant Rawlin

Affiliation Immuron Limited, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Lorena E. Brown

lorena@unimelb.edu.au

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

GR, BM and VW are employees of Immuron Limited (www.immuron.com), who hold the patents for this technology. WCN was partially funded by Immuron Ltd. 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: WCN GR LB. Performed the experiments: WCN VW. Analyzed the data: WCN LB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VW BM GR. Wrote the paper: WCN BM GR LB.