About the Authors
- Rie Yamamoto
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Affiliation Tsukuba Research Center, Drug Discovery Research, Astellas Pharma Inc., Ibaraki, Japan
- Youhei Okada
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Affiliation Tsukuba Research Center, Drug Discovery Research, Astellas Pharma Inc., Ibaraki, Japan
- Jun Hirose
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Affiliation Tsukuba Research Center, Drug Discovery Research, Astellas Pharma Inc., Ibaraki, Japan
- Tadatsura Koshika
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Affiliation Tsukuba Research Center, Drug Discovery Research, Astellas Pharma Inc., Ibaraki, Japan
- Yuka Kawato
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Affiliation Tsukuba Research Center, Drug Discovery Research, Astellas Pharma Inc., Ibaraki, Japan
- Masashi Maeda
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Affiliation Tsukuba Research Center, Drug Discovery Research, Astellas Pharma Inc., Ibaraki, Japan
- Rika Saito
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Affiliation Kashima R&D Center, Drug Discovery Research, Astellas Pharma Inc., Osaka, Japan
- Kazuyuki Hattori
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Affiliation Tsukuba Research Center, Drug Discovery Research, Astellas Pharma Inc., Ibaraki, Japan
- Hironori Harada
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Affiliation Tsukuba Research Center, Drug Discovery Research, Astellas Pharma Inc., Ibaraki, Japan
- Yasuhisa Nagasaka
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Affiliation Tsukuba Research Center, Drug Discovery Research, Astellas Pharma Inc., Ibaraki, Japan
- Tatsuaki Morokata
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* E-mail: tatsuaki.morokata@astellas.com
Affiliation Tsukuba Research Center, Drug Discovery Research, Astellas Pharma Inc., Ibaraki, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal's policy, and they have the following competing interests: All authors are employed by Astellas Pharma Inc. HH, KH and TM are listed as inventors on a patent application (publication number WO2007/116866) covering the compound described in this manuscript. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RY TM. Performed the experiments: RY YO JH TK YK MM RS YN TM. Analyzed the data: RY YO RS YN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KH HH. Wrote the paper: RY TM.