About the Authors

Shuxun Ren

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Molecular Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Gang Lu

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Molecular Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Asuka Ota

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Molecular Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Z. Hong Zhou

Affiliation Departments of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Thomas M. Vondriska

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Molecular Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, Departments of Physiology and Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Laboratories, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Timothy F. Lane

Affiliation Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Yibin Wang

yibinwang@mednet.ucla.edu

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Molecular Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, Departments of Physiology and Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Laboratories, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SR YW TL. Performed the experiments: SR GL AO HZ. Analyzed the data: SR TV HZ TL YW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GL. Wrote the paper: SR TV GL AO YW.