About the Authors

David Williams

Contributed equally to this work with: David Williams, Kylie M. Venardos

Affiliation Heart Failure Research Group, Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia

Kylie M. Venardos

Contributed equally to this work with: David Williams, Kylie M. Venardos

Affiliations Heart Failure Research Group, Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Melissa Byrne

Affiliation Heart Failure Research Group, Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia

Mandar Joshi

Affiliation Heart Failure Research Group, Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia

Duncan Horlock

Affiliation Heart Failure Research Group, Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia

Nicholas T. Lam

Affiliation Heart Failure Research Group, Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia

Paul Gregorevic

Affiliation Muscle Research & Therapeutics Laboratory, Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia

Sean L. McGee

Affiliation Metabolic Research Unit, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia

David M. Kaye

david.kaye@bakeridi.edu.au

Affiliations Heart Failure Research Group, Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DW KV MB SM DK. Performed the experiments: DW KV MB MJ DH NL PG SM DK. Analyzed the data: DW KV MJ SM DK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PG SM DK. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: DW KV MB MJ DH NL PG SM DK.