About the Authors

F. Aura Kullmann

Aura.Kullmann@gmail.com

Affiliation Urogenix Inc./Astellas, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Grace I. Wells

Affiliation Urogenix Inc./Astellas, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Christopher L. Langdale

Affiliation Urogenix Inc./Astellas, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Jihong Zheng

Affiliation Urogenix Inc./Astellas, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Karl B. Thor

Affiliation Urogenix Inc./Astellas, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare the following financial competing interest: at the time when the studies were performed all authors were full time employees of Urogenix Inc., a subsidiary of Astellas Pharma. Astellas Pharma supports and encourages publication of scientific data in peer review journals. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FAK KBT. Performed the experiments: FAK GIW JZ CL. Analyzed the data: FAK GIW JZ CL. Wrote the manuscript: FAK CL KBT.