About the Authors

Maria del Pilar Quintana

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Biomedicum, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Jun-Hong Ch’ng

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Biomedicum, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Arash Zandian

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Affinity Proteomics, Science for Life Laboratory, School of Biotechnology, KTH-Royal Institutet of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Maryam Imam

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Biomedicum, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Kjell Hultenby

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Clinical Research Centre, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden

Michael Theisen

Roles Resources

Affiliations Department for Congenital Disorders, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark, Centre for Medical Parasitology, Department of International Health, Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Peter Nilsson

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Affinity Proteomics, Science for Life Laboratory, School of Biotechnology, KTH-Royal Institutet of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Ulrika Qundos

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Affinity Proteomics, Science for Life Laboratory, School of Biotechnology, KTH-Royal Institutet of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Kirsten Moll

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Biomedicum, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Sherwin Chan

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Biomedicum, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Mats Wahlgren

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mats.wahlgren@ki.se

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Biomedicum, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

Mats Wahlgren is a co-founder and board member at Modus Therapeutics (known before as Dilaforette), a company developing drugs for the treatment of severe malaria. This however does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials included in this manuscript since none of the data is directly related to the company’s activities. All the other authors declare that they have no competing interests.