About the Authors

Aleksandr Vasilyev

Affiliation Nephrology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yan Liu

Affiliation Nephrology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sudha Mudumana

Affiliation Nephrology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Steve Mangos

Affiliation Nephrology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Pui-Ying Lam

Affiliation Nephrology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Arindam Majumdar

Current address: Division of Matrix Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Affiliation Nephrology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jinhua Zhao

Current address: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Affiliation Nephrology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kar-Lai Poon

Affiliation Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Singapore, Singapore

Igor Kondrychyn

Affiliation Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Singapore, Singapore

Vladimir Korzh

Affiliation Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Singapore, Singapore

Iain A Drummond

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Idrummon@receptor.mgh.harvard.edu

Affiliation Nephrology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

A. Vasilyev and I.A. Drummond conceived and designed the experiments. A. Vasilyev, Y. Liu, S. Mangos, P. Lam, A. Majumdar, and J. Zhao performed the experiments. A. Vasilyev and I.A. Drummond analyzed the data. A. Vasilyev, Y. Liu, S. Mudumana, S. Mangos, K-L. Poon, I. Kondrychyn, V. Korzh, and I.A. Drummond contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. A. Vasilyev and I.A. Drummond wrote the paper.