About the Authors

Éva Csősz

Contributed equally to this work with: Éva Csősz, Péter Lábiscsák

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, 1. Egyetem ter, Debrecen, Hungary

Péter Lábiscsák

Contributed equally to this work with: Éva Csősz, Péter Lábiscsák

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, 1. Egyetem ter, Debrecen, Hungary

Gergő Kalló

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, 1. Egyetem ter, Debrecen, Hungary

Bernadett Márkus

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, 1. Egyetem ter, Debrecen, Hungary

Miklós Emri

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, 1. Egyetem ter, Debrecen, Hungary

Adrienn Szabó

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Debrecen, 1. Egyetem ter, Debrecen, Hungary

Ildikó Tar

Affiliation Department of Periodontology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Debrecen, 1. Egyetem ter, Debrecen, Hungary

József Tőzsér

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, 1. Egyetem ter, Debrecen, Hungary

Csongor Kiss

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, 1. Egyetem ter, Debrecen, Hungary

Ildikó Márton

marton.ildiko@dental.unideb.hu

Affiliation Department of Periodontology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Debrecen, 1. Egyetem ter, Debrecen, Hungary

Competing Interests

This study was funded in part by an Astellas Pharma Ltd. Fellowship to GK. At the University of Debrecen there is an Astellas Pharma award for Ph.D. students presenting the best research proposal. The awardee is selected by the Scientific Committee of the University of Debrecen and the award is given by Astellas Pharma Ltd. in form of 500000 HUF (approx. 1600 EUR) credit to cover the costs of consumables and chemicals used during the research. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: IM CK. Data curation: ME EC. Formal analysis: ME. Funding acquisition: IM JT EC GK. Investigation: IT PL EC BM GK. Methodology: EC PL GK. Project administration: EC IM. Resources: AS IM EC IT PL ME. Software: ME. Supervision: IM EC JT. Validation: BM. Visualization: GK BM. Writing – original draft: EC. Writing – review & editing: IM CK JT.