About the Authors

Praveen Papareddy

praveen.papareddy@med.lu.se

Affiliation Division of Dermatology and Venereology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Biomedical Center, Lund, Sweden

Martina Kalle

Affiliation Division of Dermatology and Venereology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Biomedical Center, Lund, Sweden

Ole E. Sørensen

Affiliation Division of Infection Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Biomedical Center, Lund, Sweden

Katarina Lundqvist

Affiliation Division of Dermatology and Venereology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Biomedical Center, Lund, Sweden

Matthias Mörgelin

Affiliation Division of Infection Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Biomedical Center, Lund, Sweden

Martin Malmsten

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Artur Schmidtchen

Affiliation Division of Dermatology and Venereology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Biomedical Center, Lund, Sweden

Competing Interests

Drs. Malmsten and Schmidtchen are co-founders of, and own shares in XImmune AB, a company developing peptides for anti-infective treatment. The TFPI-2 peptide EDC34 is included in a patent application of the company. 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: PP AS. Performed the experiments: PP MK OS KL M. Mörgelin M. Malmsten. Analyzed the data: PP AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KL M. Malmsten. Wrote the paper: PP AS.