About the Authors

Alessandra di Penta

Affiliations Center of Neuroimmunology, Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi Sunyer (IDIBAPS) – Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Barcelona Spain, Neurogenomiks, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain

Beatriz Moreno

Affiliation Center of Neuroimmunology, Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi Sunyer (IDIBAPS) – Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Barcelona Spain

Stephanie Reix

Affiliation Vall d'Hebron Institut de Recerca (VHIR), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and CIBERNED, Barcelona, Spain

Begoña Fernandez-Diez

Affiliation Center of Neuroimmunology, Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi Sunyer (IDIBAPS) – Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Barcelona Spain

Maite Villanueva

Affiliation Center of Neuroimmunology, Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi Sunyer (IDIBAPS) – Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Barcelona Spain

Oihana Errea

Affiliation Center of Neuroimmunology, Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi Sunyer (IDIBAPS) – Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Barcelona Spain

Nagore Escala

Affiliation Center of Neuroimmunology, Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi Sunyer (IDIBAPS) – Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Barcelona Spain

Koen Vandenbroeck

Affiliations Neurogenomiks, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain, IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain

Joan X. Comella

Affiliation Vall d'Hebron Institut de Recerca (VHIR), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and CIBERNED, Barcelona, Spain

Pablo Villoslada

pvilloslada@clinic.ub.es

Affiliation Center of Neuroimmunology, Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi Sunyer (IDIBAPS) – Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Barcelona Spain

Competing Interests

PV serves as Academic Editor in PLOS ONE. PV is founder and hold stocks in Bionure Farma SL. PV has received consultancy fees from Novartis, Roche, MedImmune, Heidelberg Engineering, Digna Biotech, Neurotec, and Bionure Farma. 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: AdP PV JC. Performed the experiments: AdP BM SR BFD MV OE NE. Analyzed the data: AdP KV JC PV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KV ER JC. Wrote the paper: AdP KV JC PV.