About the Authors

Travis K. Warren

Affiliation Molecular and Translational Sciences Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Chris A. Whitehouse

Affiliation Molecular and Translational Sciences Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Jay Wells

Affiliation Molecular and Translational Sciences Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Lisa Welch

Affiliation Molecular and Translational Sciences Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Jay S. Charleston

Affiliation Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alison Heald

Affiliation Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Donald K. Nichols

Affiliation Pathology Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Marc E. Mattix

Current address: WIL Research, Ashland, Ohio, United States of America

Affiliation Pathology Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Gustavo Palacios

Affiliation Center for Genome Sciences, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Jeffrey R. Kugleman

Affiliation Center for Genome Sciences, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Patrick L. Iversen

Affiliation Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sina Bavari

sina.bavari.civ@mail.mil

Affiliation Molecular and Translational Sciences Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

AH, JSC, and PLI are/were employed by Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. This does not alter our adherence to all PLOS policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TKW JSC AH PLI GP JRK. Performed the experiments: JW DKN MEM JRK. Analyzed the data: TKW CAW LW JSC AH DKN MEM GP JRK PLI SB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TKW JSC AH DKN MEM GP JRK PLI SB. Wrote the paper: TKW CAW JSC AH DKN MEM PLI SB.