About the Authors

Yaiza Diaz-de-Durana

Contributed equally to this work with: Yaiza Diaz-de-Durana, Janet Lau

Affiliation Genetics Department, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, United States of America

Janet Lau

Contributed equally to this work with: Yaiza Diaz-de-Durana, Janet Lau

Current address: Genentech, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Genetics Department, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, United States of America

Deborah Knee

Affiliation Biotherapeutics Department, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, United States of America

Christophe Filippi

Affiliation Genetics Department, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, United States of America

Marco Londei

Current address: Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Affiliation Translational Medicine, Novartis Institutes of Biomedical Research, San Diego, California, United States of America

Peter McNamara

Affiliation Pharmacology Department, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, United States of America

Marc Nasoff

Affiliation Biotherapeutics Department, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, United States of America

Michael DiDonato

Affiliation Structural Biology Department, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, United States of America

Richard Glynne

rglynne@gnf.org

Affiliation Genetics Department, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, United States of America

Ann E. Herman

Current address: Genentech, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Genetics Department, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they were all employees of the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation or Novartis Institutes of Biomedical Research, and owned stock in Novartis (except YD and JL), at the time this work was completed. This does not alter their adherance to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YD JL AEH. Performed the experiments: YD JL. Analyzed the data: YD JL AEH. Wrote the manuscript: JL AEH YD RG CF. Pharmacology support: PM. Protein sciences support: MD. Biotherapeutics support: DK MN. Translational sciences support: ML.