About the Authors

Hillary Johnston-Cox

Contributed equally to this work with: Hillary Johnston-Cox, Milka Koupenova, Katya Ravid

Affiliations Departments of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Milka Koupenova

Contributed equally to this work with: Hillary Johnston-Cox, Milka Koupenova, Katya Ravid

Affiliations Departments of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dan Yang

Affiliation Departments of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Barbara Corkey

Affiliations Departments of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Noyan Gokce

Affiliations Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Melissa G. Farb

Affiliations Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nathan LeBrasseur

Affiliation Departments of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Katya Ravid

Contributed equally to this work with: Hillary Johnston-Cox, Milka Koupenova, Katya Ravid

kravid@bu.edu

Affiliations Departments of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HJC MK KR. Performed the experiments: HJC MK DY MGF. Analyzed the data: HJC MK NG MGF NL KR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HJC MK BC NG MGF NL KR. Wrote the paper: HJC MK KR.