About the Authors

John-Paul Michalski

Contributed equally to this work with: John-Paul Michalski, Carrie Anderson

Affiliations Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Carrie Anderson

Contributed equally to this work with: John-Paul Michalski, Carrie Anderson

Affiliation Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ariane Beauvais

Affiliation Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Yves De Repentigny

Affiliation Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Rashmi Kothary

rkothary@ohri.ca

Affiliations Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: J-PM RK. Performed the experiments: J-PM CA AB YDR. Analyzed the data: J-PM CA AB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RK. Wrote the paper: J-PM CA RK.