About the Authors

Victoria Rydengård

victoria.rydengard@med.lu.se

Affiliation Section of Dermatology and Venereology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Biomedical Center, Lund, Sweden

Oonagh Shannon

Affiliation Section of Infection Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Biomedical Center, Lund, Sweden

Katarina Lundqvist

Affiliation Section of Dermatology and Venereology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Biomedical Center, Lund, Sweden

Lukasz Kacprzyk

Affiliations Section of Dermatology and Venereology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Biomedical Center, Lund, Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics & Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Anna Chalupka

Affiliations Section of Dermatology and Venereology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Biomedical Center, Lund, Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics & Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Anna-Karin Olsson

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala Biomedical Center, Uppsala, Sweden

Matthias Mörgelin

Affiliation Section of Infection Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Biomedical Center, Lund, Sweden

Willi Jahnen-Dechent

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany

Martin Malmsten

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Uppsala University, Uppsala Biomedical Center, Uppsala, Sweden

Artur Schmidtchen

Affiliation Section of Dermatology and Venereology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Biomedical Center, Lund, Sweden

Competing Interests

Drs. Schmidtchen and Malmsten have shares in DermaGen AB, a company involved in therapeutical development of antimicrobial peptides. Peptides of HRG are included in patent applications of the company.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: V. Rydengård, O. Shannon, M. Mörgelin, M. Malmsten, A. Schmidtchen. Performed the experiments: V. Rydengård, O. Shannon, K. Lundqvist, L. Kacprzyk, A. Chalupka, A. Olsson, M. Mörgelin, M. Malmsten. Analyzed the data: V. Rydengård. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: W. Jahnen-Dechent. Wrote the paper: V. Rydengård, A. Schmidtchen. Critically read the manuscript: W. Jahnen-Dechent. All authors critically revised the manuscript.