About the Authors

Markus Thomas

markus.thomas@roche.com

Affiliation Discovery Oncology, Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany

Yvonne Kienast

Affiliation Discovery Oncology, Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany

Werner Scheuer

Affiliation Discovery Oncology, Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany

Monika Bähner

Affiliation Biologics Research, Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany

Klaus Kaluza

Affiliation Biologics Research, Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany

Christian Gassner

Affiliation Biologics Research, Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany

Frank Herting

Affiliation Discovery Oncology, Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany

Ulrich Brinkmann

Affiliation Biologics Research, Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany

Stefan Seeber

Affiliation Biologics Research, Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany

Anita Kavlie

Affiliation Affitech Research AS, Oslo, Norway

Martin Welschof

Current address: Opsona Therapeutics Ltd., Dublin, Ireland

Affiliation Affitech Research AS, Oslo, Norway

Stefan Ries

Affiliation Biologics Research, Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany

K. Michael Weidner

Affiliation Discovery Oncology, Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany

Jörg T. Regula

Affiliation Biologics Research, Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany

Christian Klein

Current address: Discovery Oncology, Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Glycart AG, Schlieren, Switzerland

Affiliation Discovery Oncology, Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors are employees of Roche Diagnostics GmbH or Affitech Research AS. 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: MT YK WS MB KK CG FH UB SS SR KMW JTR CK. Performed the experiments: MT YK WS KK CG FH SS JTR. Analyzed the data: MT YK WS KK CG FH SS JTR CK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB AK MW. Wrote the paper: MT YK CK.