About the Authors
- Valerie J. O'Sullivan
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Affiliation Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., Pierce Protein Research, Rockford, Illinois, United States of America
- Isabelle Barrette-Ng
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Eric Hommema
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Affiliation Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., Pierce Protein Research, Rockford, Illinois, United States of America
- Greg T. Hermanson
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Affiliation Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., Pierce Protein Research, Rockford, Illinois, United States of America
- Mark Schofield
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Current address: Pall Life Sciences, Northborough, Massachusetts, United States of America
Affiliation Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., Pierce Protein Research, Rockford, Illinois, United States of America
- Sau-Ching Wu
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Claudia Honetschlaeger
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Kenneth K.-S. Ng
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Sui-Lam Wong
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* E-mail: slwong@ucalgary.ca
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Competing Interests
Eric Hommema and Greg T. Hermanson are employees of Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. Valerie J. O'Sullivan and Mark Schofield were employees of Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. during the study. Mark Schofield is currently an employee of Pall Life Sciences. A US patent application to characterize the mutein has been made through Innovate Calgary, the technology transfer office of the University of Calgary. Thermo Fisher Scientific is interested in developing this product for marketing. 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: VJO EH GTH MS IBN SCW KN SLW. Performed the experiments: VJO EH MS SCW CH IBN. Analyzed the data: VJO EH GTH MS IBN SCW CH KN SLW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VJO EH MS GTH IBN KN SLW. Wrote the paper: VJO SCW IBN KN SLW. Manuscript editing: GTH MS.