About the Authors

Claudia Eberle

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudia Eberle, Esther Merki

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Esther Merki

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudia Eberle, Esther Merki

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Tomoya Yamashita

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Susie Johnson

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Aaron M. Armando

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Oswald Quehenberger

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Claudio Napoli

Affiliation Department of General Pathology and Excellence Research Center on Cardiovascular Disease, First School of Medicine, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Wulf Palinski

wpalinski@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WP CE EM OQ. Performed the experiments: CE EM TY SJ AMA WP. Analyzed the data: WP CE EM AMA OQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WP OQ. Wrote the paper: WP CE EM TY OQ CN SJ.