About the Authors

Tracy L. Adair-Kirk

tkirk@dom.wustl.edu

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Gail L. Griffin

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Michelle J. Meyer

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Diane G. Kelley

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jeffrey H. Miner

Affiliations Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Douglas R. Keene

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

M. Peter Marinkovich

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

J. Michael Ruppert

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Jouni Uitto

Affiliation Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Robert M. Senior

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TLAK JHM MPM RMS. Performed the experiments: TLAK GLG MJM DGK DRK. Analyzed the data: TLAK DGK JHM DRK MPM JU RMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MPM JMR JU. Wrote the paper: TLAK JHM RMS.