About the Authors

Stéphanie M. Boudon

Contributed equally to this work with: Stéphanie M. Boudon, Anna Vuorinen

Affiliation DSM Nutritional Products Ltd., Kaiseraugst, Switzerland

Anna Vuorinen

Contributed equally to this work with: Stéphanie M. Boudon, Anna Vuorinen

Affiliation Division of Molecular and Systems Toxicology, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Piero Geotti-Bianchini

Affiliation DSM Nutritional Products Ltd., Kaiseraugst, Switzerland

Eliane Wandeler

Affiliation DSM Nutritional Products Ltd., Kaiseraugst, Switzerland

Denise V. Kratschmar

Affiliation Division of Molecular and Systems Toxicology, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Marc Heidl

Affiliation DSM Nutritional Products Ltd., Kaiseraugst, Switzerland

Remo Campiche

Affiliation DSM Nutritional Products Ltd., Kaiseraugst, Switzerland

Eileen Jackson

alex.odermatt@unibas.ch (AO); eileen.jackson@dsm.com (EJ)

Affiliation DSM Nutritional Products Ltd., Kaiseraugst, Switzerland

Alex Odermatt

alex.odermatt@unibas.ch (AO); eileen.jackson@dsm.com (EJ)

Affiliation Division of Molecular and Systems Toxicology, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

SB, PGB, EW, MH, RC, EJ were employees of DSM Nutritional Products Ltd. AO was a consultant of DSM Nutritional Products Ltd. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SMB EJ AO. Data curation: SMB AV PGB EJ AO. Formal analysis: SMB AV DVK PGB EW MH RC EJ AO. Funding acquisition: EJ AO. Investigation: AV PGB EW. Project administration: SMB EJ AO. Resources: MH RC EJ AO. Supervision: SMB EJ AO. Validation: SMB EJ AO. Writing – original draft: SMB AV DVK PGB EJ AO. Writing – review & editing: SMB AV DVK PGB RC EJ AO.