About the Authors

Mathias Lundberg

Mathias.Lundberg@ki.se

These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Clinical Science and Education, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Sophie Curbo

These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden

Kathrin Reiser

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden

Thomas Masterman

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Sten Braesch-Andersen

Affiliation Mabtech, Nacka, Sweden

Irene Areström

Affiliation Mabtech, Nacka, Sweden

Niklas Ahlborg

Affiliations Mabtech, Nacka, Sweden, Department of Immunology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

Co-authors NA and IA are employees at Mabtech. Co-author SB-A is one of the owners of Mabtech. Mabtech produces and sells some of the reagents used in this study. There are no products in development or further marketed products to declare with regard to this study. There are no patents on the reagents used in this study. 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: ML SC IA NA. Performed the experiments: ML SC KR IA NA. Analyzed the data: ML SC KR TM SB-A IA NA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ML SC TM SB-A NA. Wrote the paper: ML SC KR TM SB-A IA NA.