About the Authors
- Elaine C. Fitches
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* E-mail: elaine.fitches@fera.gsi.gov.uk
Affiliation Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Food and Environmental Research Agency, Sand Hutton, United Kingdom
- Prashant Pyati
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Affiliation School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom
- Glenn F. King
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Affiliation Division of Chemical and Structural Biology, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
- John A. Gatehouse
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Affiliation School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The authors declare that Isagro Ricerca S.r.l have contributed to the funding of this work. In addition the authors declare that a PCT International patent application (covering the inventiveness of the fusion protein described in this manuscript) was filed with the United Kingdom Intellectual Property office on the 29th March 2012, which claims priority from GB1105418.6 filed 31st March 2011. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all PloS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: ECF PSP GFK JAG. Performed the experiments: ECF PSP. Analyzed the data: ECF JAG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GFK. Wrote the paper: ECF JAG GFK.