About the Authors

Silke Miller

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California, United States of America

Sara Rao

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California, United States of America

Weiya Wang

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California, United States of America

Hantao Liu

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California, United States of America

Judy Wang

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California, United States of America

Narender R. Gavva

ngavva@amgen.com

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

All authors work for a per profit company Amgen Inc. No products from Amgen are promoted. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SR SM JW NRG. Performed the experiments: WW HL SR JW. Analyzed the data: WW SR SM NRG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: SM SR NRG.