About the Authors

Christina Menke

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Tatiana Goncharov

Current address: Department of Protein Engineering, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Lubna Qamar

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Christopher Korch

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Heide L. Ford

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Kian Behbakht

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Andrew Thorburn

Andrew.Thorburn@ucdenver.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TG HLF KB AT. Performed the experiments: CM TG LQ CK. Analyzed the data: CM HLF KB AT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CK. Wrote the paper: HLF KB AT.