About the Authors

Ho Joong Sung

Contributed equally to this work with: Ho Joong Sung, Wenzhe Ma

Affiliations Center for Molecular Medicine, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Laboratory Science, College of Health Science, Eulji University, GyeongGi-Do, Korea

Wenzhe Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Ho Joong Sung, Wenzhe Ma

Affiliation Center for Molecular Medicine, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Matthew F. Starost

Affiliation Center for Molecular Medicine, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Cory U. Lago

Affiliation Center for Molecular Medicine, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Philip K. Lim

Affiliation Center for Molecular Medicine, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Michael N. Sack

Affiliation Center for Molecular Medicine, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ju-Gyeong Kang

Affiliation Center for Molecular Medicine, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ping-yuan Wang

Affiliation Center for Molecular Medicine, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Paul M. Hwang

hwangp@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Center for Molecular Medicine, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HS WM CUL PMH. Performed the experiments: HS WM MFS. Analyzed the data: HS WM MFS CUL PKL JK PW PMH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MFS JK CUL PKL MNS. Wrote the paper: PW PMH.