About the Authors
- Sebastian Winsel
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Affiliations Global Drug Discovery, Bayer Healthcare, Berlin, Germany, Institute for Chemistry-Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Medical Biotechnology, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Turku, Finland
- Anette Sommer
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Affiliation Global Drug Discovery, Bayer Healthcare, Berlin, Germany
- Julia Eschenbrenner
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Affiliations Global Drug Discovery, Bayer Healthcare, Berlin, Germany, Institut für Biotechnologie, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Kevin Mittelstaedt
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Affiliations Global Drug Discovery, Bayer Healthcare, Berlin, Germany, Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
- Ulrich Klar
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Affiliation Global Drug Discovery, Bayer Healthcare, Berlin, Germany
- Stefanie Hammer
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* E-mail: stefanie.hammer@bayer.com (SH); jens.hoffmann@mdc-berlin.de (JH)
Affiliation Global Drug Discovery, Bayer Healthcare, Berlin, Germany
- Jens Hoffmann
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* E-mail: stefanie.hammer@bayer.com (SH); jens.hoffmann@mdc-berlin.de (JH)
Affiliations Global Drug Discovery, Bayer Healthcare, Berlin, Germany, Experimental Pharmacology, Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: The company had a role in this study in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish and preparation of the manuscript. All the authors are employees or former employees of the Bayer Healthcare. Grant support in detail: S. Winsel, J. Eschenbrenner, K. Mittelstaedt recieved commercial research grants from Bayer Healthcare; A. Sommer, U. Klar, S. Hammer, J. Hoffmann are current or former employes of Bayer Healthcare and hold patents on Bayer Healthcare as well as shares on Bayer. 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: SW AS JE KM UK SH JH. Performed the experiments: SW. Analyzed the data: SW AS SH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SW AS JE KM UK SH JH. Wrote the paper: SW AS SH JH.