About the Authors
- Patrick M. McDonough
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* E-mail: pmcdonough@valasciences.com
Affiliation Vala Sciences Inc, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Dominique Maciejewski-Lenoir
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Contributed equally to this work with: Dominique Maciejewski-Lenoir, Sean M. Hartig
Affiliation Vala Sciences Inc, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Sean M. Hartig
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Contributed equally to this work with: Dominique Maciejewski-Lenoir, Sean M. Hartig
Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Rita A. Hanna
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Affiliation Vala Sciences Inc, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Ross Whittaker
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Affiliation Vala Sciences Inc, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Andrew Heisel
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Affiliation Vala Sciences Inc, San Diego, California, United States of America
- James B. Nicoll
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Affiliation Zen-Bio, Inc, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America
- Benjamin M. Buehrer
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Affiliation Zen-Bio, Inc, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America
- Kurt Christensen
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Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Maureen G. Mancini
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Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Michael A. Mancini
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Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Dean P. Edwards
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Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Jeffrey H. Price
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Affiliations Vala Sciences Inc, San Diego, California, United States of America, Signal Transduction Program, The Sanford-Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors P. M. McDonough, R. Whittaker, A. Heisel, and J. H. Price are employees of Vala Sciences Inc. P. M. McDonough and J. H. Price are also stock-holders in Vala Sciences Inc. D. Maciejewski-Lenoir volunteered for Vala Sciences Inc for this project. J. B. Nicoll and B. M. Buehrer are employees of Zen-Bio, Inc. Reagents and software referred to in this paper are available from Vala Sciences Inc as commercial products. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DM-L SMH RW AH BMB MAM JHP PMM. Performed the experiments: DM-L SMH RW AH JBN RAH KC PMM. Analyzed the data: SMH RW MAM JHP PMM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JBN BMB MGM DPE, JHP. Wrote the paper: DM-L SMH PMM.