About the Authors

Rongqin Ke

Contributed equally to this work with: Rongqin Ke, Rachel Yuan Nong

Affiliations Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Solna, Sweden, Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, the Rudbeck Laboratory, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Rachel Yuan Nong

Contributed equally to this work with: Rongqin Ke, Rachel Yuan Nong

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, the Rudbeck Laboratory, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Simon Fredriksson

Affiliation Olink Bioscience, Uppsala, Sweden

Ulf Landegren

ulf.landegren@igp.uu.se (UL); mats.nilsson@scilifelab.se (MN)

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, the Rudbeck Laboratory, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Mats Nilsson

ulf.landegren@igp.uu.se (UL); mats.nilsson@scilifelab.se (MN)

Affiliations Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Solna, Sweden, Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, the Rudbeck Laboratory, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Competing Interests

SF, UL, and MN hold stock in the company Olink Bioscience that holds commercial rights to the PLA technology. 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: MN RK RYN UL. Performed the experiments: RK RYN. Analyzed the data: RK RYN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SF. Wrote the paper: RK RYN MN UL.