About the Authors

Ana Paula Catunda Lemos

Affiliation Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Gödöllő, Hungary

Judit Cervenak

Affiliation ImmunoGenes Kft, Budakeszi, Hungary

Balázs Bender

Affiliation ImmunoGenes Kft, Budakeszi, Hungary

Orsolya Ivett Hoffmann

Affiliation Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Gödöllő, Hungary

Mária Baranyi

Affiliation ImmunoGenes Kft, Budakeszi, Hungary

Andrea Kerekes

Affiliation Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Gödöllő, Hungary

Anita Farkas

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

Zsuzsanna Bősze

Affiliation Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Gödöllő, Hungary

László Hiripi

hiripi@yahoo.com (LH); ikacsko@elte.hu (IK)

Affiliation Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Gödöllő, Hungary

Imre Kacskovics

hiripi@yahoo.com (LH); ikacsko@elte.hu (IK)

Affiliations ImmunoGenes Kft, Budakeszi, Hungary, Department of Immunology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Judit Cervenak, Balázs Bender and Maria Baranyi are scientific researchers. Zsuzsanna Bősze is co-founder and Imre Kacskovics is co-founder and CEO of ImmunoGenes Ltd. Budakeszi, Hungary a company specialized in the generation of FcRn transgenic animals for the production of polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies (these animals are in development phase) (www.immunogenes.com). Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary and Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Godollo, Hungary have been granted a European patent for this technology (Method using a transgenic animal with enhanced immune response; EP2097444), and seek patent in other major markets. The technology has been licensed exclusively to ImmunoGenes 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: IK LH ZB. Performed the experiments: APCL JC BB OH MB AK AF. Analyzed the data: IK LH ZB. Wrote the paper: IK LH.