About the Authors

Troy A. Luster

Affiliation Department of Oncology Research, Human Genome Sciences, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Ipsita Mukherjee

Affiliation Department of Oncology Research, Human Genome Sciences, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Jeffrey A. Carrell

Affiliation Department of Lead Development, Human Genome Sciences, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Yun Hee Cho

Affiliation Department of Lead Development, Human Genome Sciences, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Jeffrey Gill

Affiliation Department of Lead Development, Human Genome Sciences, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Lizbeth Kelly

Affiliation Department of Immunology Research, Human Genome Sciences, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Andy Garcia

Affiliation Department of Lead Development, Human Genome Sciences, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Christopher Ward

Affiliation Department of Lead Development, Human Genome Sciences, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Luke Oh

Affiliation Department of Immunology Research, Human Genome Sciences, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Stephen J. Ullrich

Affiliation Department of Lead Development, Human Genome Sciences, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Thi-Sau Migone

Affiliation Department of Immunology Research, Human Genome Sciences, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Robin Humphreys

robin_humphreys@hgsi.com

Affiliation Department of Oncology Research, Human Genome Sciences, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's competing interests policy and have the following financial conflicts: All authors are current or former employees and stock holders of Human Genome Sciences. HGS owns several granted and pending patents directed to isolated BLyS polypeptides and BLyS-toxin fusion, details of which will be made available on request. None of the listed authors on the manuscript are inventors on the above-referenced patents. These disclosures do not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TAL YHC TSM RH. Performed the experiments: TAL IM JAC YHC JG LK AG CW. Analyzed the data: TAL IM SJU TSM RH LO. Wrote the paper: TAL JAC YHC AC.