About the Authors
- Ulrike Donat
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ulrike Donat, Juliane Rother
Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
- Juliane Rother
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ulrike Donat, Juliane Rother
Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
- Simon Schäfer
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† Deceased.
Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
- Michael Hess
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Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
- Barbara Härtl
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Affiliations Institute of Biochemistry, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany, Genelux GmbH, Bernried, Germany
- Christina Kober
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Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
- Johanna Langbein-Laugwitz
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Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
- Jochen Stritzker
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Affiliations Institute of Biochemistry, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany, Genelux Corporation, San Diego Science Center, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Nanhai G. Chen
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Affiliations Genelux Corporation, San Diego Science Center, San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences, Rebecca & John Moores Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Richard J. Aguilar
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Affiliation Genelux Corporation, San Diego Science Center, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Stephanie Weibel
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Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
- Aladar A. Szalay
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* E-mail: aaszalay@genelux.com
Affiliations Institute of Biochemistry, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany, Genelux Corporation, San Diego Science Center, San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences, Rebecca & John Moores Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, California, United States of America, Genelux GmbH, Bernried, Germany, Rudolph Virchow Center for Experimental Biomedicine and Institute for Molecular Infection Biology, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
Competing Interests
This work was supported by the Research and Development Division of Genelux Corporation, San Diego, USA, and a Service Grant to the University of Wuerzburg, Germany funded by Genelux Corp. UD and SW received postdoctoral fellowship. JR, CK, SS and MH received a graduate fellowship from Genelux Corporation awarded to the University of Wuerzburg. AAS, JS, NGC and RJA are salaried employees of Genelux Corporation and have financial interests in Genelux Corporation. BH is a salaried employee of Genelux GmbH. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Additionally to all competing interests stated before the authors add that those do not alter their adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: UD SS AAS. Performed the experiments: UD JR SS BH CK JLL. Analyzed the data: UD JR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NGC RJA. Wrote the paper: UD SW JS MH AAS.