About the Authors

Konstantin V. Salojin

ksalojin@gmail.com

Affiliation Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc, The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America

Brian D. Hamman

Affiliation Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc, The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America

Wei Chun Chang

Current address: Bellicum Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Houston, Texas, United States of America,

Affiliation Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc, The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America

Kanchan G. Jhaver

Current address: Bellicum Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Houston, Texas, United States of America,

Affiliation Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc, The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America

Amin Al-Shami

Affiliation Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc, The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America

Jeannette Crisostomo

Affiliation Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc, The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America

Carrie Wilkins

Affiliation Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc, The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America

Ann Marie Digeorge-Foushee

Affiliation Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc, The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America

Jason Allen

Affiliation Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc, The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America

Nita Patel

Affiliation Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc, The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America

Suma Gopinathan

Affiliation Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc, The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America

Julia Zhou

Affiliation Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc, The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America

Amr Nouraldeen

Affiliation Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc, The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America

Theodore C. Jessop

Affiliation Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc, The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America

Jeffrey T. Bagdanoff

Current address: Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics, Inc., Emeryville, California, United States of America,

Affiliation Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc, The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America

David J. Augeri

Current address: Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Affiliation Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc, The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America

Robert Read

Affiliation Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc, The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America

Peter Vogel

Affiliation Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc, The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America

Jonathan Swaffield

Affiliation Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc, The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America

Alan Wilson

Affiliation Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc, The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America

Kenneth A. Platt

Affiliation Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc, The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America

Kenneth G. Carson

Affiliation Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc, The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America

Alan Main

Affiliation Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc, The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America

Brian P. Zambrowicz

Affiliation Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc, The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America

Tamas Oravecz

Affiliation Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc, The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

All the authors of the article are or have been employees of, and received stock options from, Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc. This submission is related to the following patent: Augeri DJ, Bagdanoff, J.T., Baugh, S.D.P., Carlsen, M., Carson, K.G., Gilleran, J.A., He, W., Oravecz, T., Salojin, K., and Sung, L., inventors; Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc., assignee (2012) MST1 kinase inhibitors and methods of their use. US Patent Application No 13/410,407 Publication No 20120225857 2012 Sep 6. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KVS BDH KGJ AN TCJ JTB DJA KAP TO. Performed the experiments: KVS WCC KGJ AA JC CW AMDF JA NP SG JZ. Analyzed the data: KVS BDH WCC KGJ AA AN TCJ JTB DJA RR PV KAP TO. Wrote the paper: KVS BDH KAP TO. Edited the manuscript and provided conceptual advice: BDH TCJ JTB DJA JS AW KGC AM BPZ.