About the Authors

Zoltán Szittner

Affiliations Department of Immunology, EötvösLoránd University, Budapest, Hungary, Diagnosticum Ltd., Budapest, Hungary

Krisztián Papp

Affiliations Immunology Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at EötvösLoránd University, Budapest, Hungary, Diagnosticum Ltd., Budapest, Hungary

Noémi Sándor

Affiliation Immunology Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at EötvösLoránd University, Budapest, Hungary

Zsuzsa Bajtay

Affiliation Department of Immunology, EötvösLoránd University, Budapest, Hungary

József Prechl

jprechl@gmail.com

Affiliations Immunology Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at EötvösLoránd University, Budapest, Hungary, Diagnosticum Ltd., Budapest, Hungary

Competing Interests

The authors declare that a patent application related to the observations disclosed in this paper is submitted by the employers, Eötvös Loránd University, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Diagnosticum ltd. ZS, KP and JP were part-time employees of Diagnosticum ltd during the performance of these studies; currently JP is part-time employed by 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: ZS KP JP. Performed the experiments: ZS KP. Analyzed the data: ZS KP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NS ZB. Wrote the paper: ZS KP JP.