About the Authors
- Zhejun Wang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Zhejun Wang, Cesar de la Fuente-Núñez
Affiliations Division of Endodontics, Department of Oral Biological and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology (Hubei-MOST) & Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, 237 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, PR China
- Cesar de la Fuente-Núñez
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Contributed equally to this work with: Zhejun Wang, Cesar de la Fuente-Núñez
Affiliation Centre for Microbial Diseases and Immunity Research, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- Ya Shen
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Affiliation Division of Endodontics, Department of Oral Biological and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Markus Haapasalo
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* E-mail: markush@dentistry.ubc.ca (MH); bob@hancocklab.com (REWH)
Affiliation Division of Endodontics, Department of Oral Biological and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Robert E. W. Hancock
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* E-mail: markush@dentistry.ubc.ca (MH); bob@hancocklab.com (REWH)
Affiliation Centre for Microbial Diseases and Immunity Research, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Competing Interests
C.D.L.F.-N. and R.E.W.H. are co-inventors of a provisional patent application on the use of cationic anti-biofilm and innate defense regulator (IDR) peptides (U.S. Patent Application No. 61/870,655). Peptide 1018 has been out-licensed as an immune modulator to Elanco Animal Health. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. 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: ZW CDLF-N YS MH REWH. Performed the experiments: ZW CDLF-N. Analyzed the data: ZW CDLF-N. Wrote the paper: ZW CDLF-N YS MH REWH.