About the Authors
- Heng Huang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Heng Huang, M. Fethullah Simsek
Affiliation Department of Physics, University at Buffalo the State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, United States of America
- M. Fethullah Simsek
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Contributed equally to this work with: Heng Huang, M. Fethullah Simsek
Affiliation Department of Physics, University at Buffalo the State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, United States of America
- Weixiang Jin
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Affiliation Department of Physics, University at Buffalo the State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, United States of America
- Arnd Pralle
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* E-mail: apralle@buffalo.edu
Affiliations Department of Physics, University at Buffalo the State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Biophysics and Physiology, University at Buffalo the State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, United States of America
Competing Interests
US patent protection has been filed for some principles. The authors had originally stated that patent protection for some procedures was sought. However, that has now expired and the authors removed this statement. In February 2011, Heng Huang and Arnd Pralle had filed a Provisional US Patent Application 61/444,404 "Imaging FCS to determine membrane protein lipid domains association in vivo." A Provisional Patent Application expires after one year, and the formal final Application, due in Feb. 2012, was never filed correctly. In either case, this Provisional Patent filing never interfered with the research ethics and guidelines as put forward for publication in PLOS ONE.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HH AP. Performed the experiments: HH MFS WJ. Analyzed the data: HH MFS WJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HH AP. Wrote the paper: AP HH MFS. Designed the software used in analysis: HH. Performed computer simulations: MFS.