About the Authors
- Stuart P. McElroy
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* E-mail: s.mcelroy@dundee.ac.uk
Affiliation Drug Discovery Unit, Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery, College of Life Sciences, James Black Centre, Dow Street, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
- Toshifumi Nomura
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Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
- Leah S. Torrie
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Affiliation Drug Discovery Unit, Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery, College of Life Sciences, James Black Centre, Dow Street, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
- Emma Warbrick
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Affiliation Division of Molecular Medicine, College of Life Sciences, Medical Sciences Institute, Dow Street, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
- Ulrike Gartner
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Affiliation Division of Molecular Medicine, College of Life Sciences, Medical Sciences Institute, Dow Street, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
- Gavin Wood
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Affiliation Drug Discovery Unit, Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery, College of Life Sciences, James Black Centre, Dow Street, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
- W. H. Irwin McLean
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Affiliation Division of Molecular Medicine, College of Life Sciences, Medical Sciences Institute, Dow Street, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts. We discovered the lack of efficacy of PTC124 by conducting our own drug discovery programme to discover and develop nonsense mutation read-through agents. Subsequent to the completion of this work, WHIM initiated a partnership with Glaxo SmithKline (GSK) on a closely related project. The work described herein was conducted prior to, and independently of, any interaction with GSK. No materials or support were received from GSK and no agreements are in place with GSK concerning the execution or publication of this work, although they were at one point involved in discussions about its publication. The collaboration with GSK has now ended.
Author Contributions
The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: SPM WHIM TN. Performed the experiments: SPM TN LST UG EW. Analyzed the data: SPM LST UG EW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TN GW UG EW. Wrote the paper: SPM WHIM TN LST UG EW.