About the Authors

Greg L. Harris

Affiliations Expression Drug Designs, LLC, San Marcos, California, United States of America, Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Michael B. Creason

Affiliation Expression Drug Designs, LLC, San Marcos, California, United States of America

Greg B. Brulte

Affiliation Expression Drug Designs, LLC, San Marcos, California, United States of America

Deron R. Herr

dherr@expressiondrugdesigns.com

Affiliations Expression Drug Designs, LLC, San Marcos, California, United States of America, Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

DRH and MBC were Expression Drug Designs employees during the performance of these studies. DRH, GLH, and GBB own shares in Expression Drug Designs.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: DRH GLH GBB. Performed the experiments: DRH MBC. Analyzed the data: DRH GLH. Wrote the paper: DRH GLH.