About the Authors
- Regina Stoltenburg
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* E-mail: regina.stoltenburg@ufz.de
Affiliation UFZ—Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Soil Ecology, Halle, Germany
- Thomas Schubert
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Affiliation 2bind GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
- Beate Strehlitz
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Affiliation UFZ—Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department Environmental and Biotechnology Centre, Leipzig, Germany
Competing Interests
The UFZ holds a German patent on aspects of this work, which is entitled „Aptamere, die spezifisch sind für Immunglobulin bindende Zellwandproteine“ with the German application number: DE102011006610.1 and the following inventors: R. Stoltenburg, B. Strehlitz. Furthermore, the UFZ has also filed this patent as international patent application entitled „Aptamers that are specific for immunoglobulin-binding cell wall proteins" with the international application number: PCT/EP2012/055655 and the same inventors R. Stoltenburg and B. Strehlitz are employed by Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research– UFZ, Germany. T. Schubert is CEO of the company 2bind GmbH, Germany and did not have any role related to the patent. The authors confirm that 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: RS TS BS. Performed the experiments: RS TS. Analyzed the data: RS TS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RS TS BS. Wrote the paper: RS TS BS.