About the Authors

Sara Tengvall

Contributed equally to this work with: Sara Tengvall, Tove Eneljung

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Tove Eneljung

Contributed equally to this work with: Sara Tengvall, Tove Eneljung

Affiliations Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden

Pernilla Jirholt

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Olof Turesson

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Kajsa Wing

Affiliation Medical Inflammation Research, Dept of medical Biochemistry and biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Rikard Holmdahl

Affiliations Medical Inflammation Research, Dept of medical Biochemistry and biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, PR China

Jan Kihlberg

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, BMC, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Anna Stern

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Inga-Lill Mårtensson

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Louise Henningsson

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Kenth Gustafsson

Affiliation Molecular and Cellular Immunology Section, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom

Inger Gjertsson

inger.gjertsson@rheuma.gu.se

Affiliations Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden

Competing Interests

The commercial funder AFA has not in any way influenced the present work. The authors have no relations with AFA other than an approved application for the present work and additional funding. The funding does not include employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products. The funding provided by AFA does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ST TE RH KG IG. Performed the experiments: ST TE PJ KW AS ILM LH IG. Analyzed the data: ST TE OT KW RH AS ILM IG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JK RH. Wrote the paper: ST TE ILM AS KW RH IG.