About the Authors

Lucas Saposnik

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas CONICET, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina,, Escuela de Bio y Nanotecnologías (EByN), Universidad Nacional de San Martín, San Martín,

Lorena M. Coria

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas CONICET, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina,, Escuela de Bio y Nanotecnologías (EByN), Universidad Nacional de San Martín, San Martín,

Laura Bruno

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas CONICET, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina,, Escuela de Bio y Nanotecnologías (EByN), Universidad Nacional de San Martín, San Martín,

Francisco F. Guaimas

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization

Affiliations Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas CONICET, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina,, Escuela de Bio y Nanotecnologías (EByN), Universidad Nacional de San Martín, San Martín,

Julieta Pandolfi

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Servicio de Anatomía Patológica del Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, CABA, Argentina

Melina Pol

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Servicio de Anatomía Patológica del Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, CABA, Argentina

Maria Eugenia Urga

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Servicio de Anatomía Patológica del Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, CABA, Argentina

Florencia Sabbione

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliation Laboratorio de Inmunidad Innata, Instituto de Medicina Experimental (IMEX)-CONICET, Academia Nacional de Medicina, CABA, Argentina

Michael McClelland

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America

Analia Trevani

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratorio de Inmunidad Innata, Instituto de Medicina Experimental (IMEX)-CONICET, Academia Nacional de Medicina, CABA, Argentina

Karina A. Pasquevich

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas CONICET, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina,, Escuela de Bio y Nanotecnologías (EByN), Universidad Nacional de San Martín, San Martín,

Juliana Cassataro

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

jucassataro@iib.unsam.edu.ar

Affiliations Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas CONICET, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina,, Escuela de Bio y Nanotecnologías (EByN), Universidad Nacional de San Martín, San Martín,

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and JC, KP and LC have the following competing interests: JC, KP and LC are inventors of a patent related to Ecotin. The patent “Immunomodulating and immunostimulating polypeptides for drug-delivery” was filled on February 8, 2019 by the authors’ National Research Council (CONICET) and the University of San Martin (UNSAM) in the United States patent and trademark Office (US2021009371), the European patent office (PCT/IB2019/051026, EP3749364), the China National intellectual property administration (CN111936166), and the National Institute of Intellectual Property from Argentina (AR114683). The filing of the patent did not have any role in experimental design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of this manuscript.