About the Authors

Sara Vallejo-Diez

Affiliation Mucosal Immunology Laboratory, IBGM, University of Valladolid-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Valladolid, Spain

David Bernardo

Current address: Antigen Presentation Research Group, Imperial College London, Northwick Park & St Mark’s Campus, Harrow, United Kingdom

Affiliation Mucosal Immunology Laboratory, IBGM, University of Valladolid-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Valladolid, Spain

María de Lourdes Moreno

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

Alba Muñoz-Suano

Affiliation Biomedal S.L, Seville, Spain

Luis Fernández-Salazar

Affiliation Gastroenterology Service, Hospital Clínico Universitario, Valladolid, Spain

Carmen Calvo

Affiliation Pediatric Service, Hospital Clínico Universitario, Valladolid, Spain

Carolina Sousa

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

José A. Garrote

Affiliations Mucosal Immunology Laboratory, IBGM, University of Valladolid-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Valladolid, Spain, Clinical Laboratory, Hospital Universitario Rio Hortega, Valladolid, Spain

Ángel Cebolla

Affiliation Biomedal S.L, Seville, Spain

Eduardo Arranz

earranz@med.uva.es

Affiliation Mucosal Immunology Laboratory, IBGM, University of Valladolid-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Valladolid, Spain

Competing Interests

Some of the authors are inventors of the patent application “Péptido inmunogénico del gluten y sus aplicaciones” (no P201131576). The patent application is owned by the University of Valladolid (Spain) and licensed to Biomedal S.L. This work has been partially funded by Phadia Spain S.L (now ThermoFisher Scientific). The authors declare that this does not alter their adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SV-D CS AC DB JAG EA. Performed the experiments: SV-D AM-S MLM DB. Analyzed the data: SV-D MLM AM-S DB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SV-D MLM AM-S CS AC DB JAG EA. Wrote the manuscript: SV-D MLM DB CS AC JAG EA. Acquisition of data: SV-D MLM AM-S DB. Samples collection: SV-D DB LF-S CC JAG. Final approval of the version to be published: SV-D DB CS MLM AM-S LF-S CC JAG AC EA.