About the Authors

Shuji Sato

shuji.sato@takeda.com

Current address: Pharmaceutical Research Division, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, Fujisawa, Kanagawa Japan

Affiliation Takeda San Francisco, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Hiroko Kamada

Affiliation Pharmaceutical Research Division, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan

Takahiro Watanabe

Affiliation Pharmaceutical Research Division, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan

Isamu Tsuji

Affiliation Pharmaceutical Research Division, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan

Jinhong Fan

Affiliation Takeda San Francisco, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

All authors are/were employees of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited or Takeda San Francisco, Inc. and were paid as such. 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, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS HK TW IT JF. Performed the experiments: SS. Analyzed the data: SS. Wrote the paper: SS.