About the Authors

Rukhsana Gul

Contributed equally to this work with: Rukhsana Gul, Dae-Ryoung Park

Current address: Obesity Research Center, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Chonbuk National University Medical School, Jeonju, Korea, National Creative Research Laboratory for Ca2+ signaling Network, Chonbuk National University Medical School, Jeonju, Korea

Dae-Ryoung Park

Contributed equally to this work with: Rukhsana Gul, Dae-Ryoung Park

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Chonbuk National University Medical School, Jeonju, Korea, National Creative Research Laboratory for Ca2+ signaling Network, Chonbuk National University Medical School, Jeonju, Korea

Asif Iqbal Shawl

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Chonbuk National University Medical School, Jeonju, Korea, National Creative Research Laboratory for Ca2+ signaling Network, Chonbuk National University Medical School, Jeonju, Korea

Soo-Yeul Im

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Chonbuk National University Medical School, Jeonju, Korea, National Creative Research Laboratory for Ca2+ signaling Network, Chonbuk National University Medical School, Jeonju, Korea

Tae-Sik Nam

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Chonbuk National University Medical School, Jeonju, Korea, National Creative Research Laboratory for Ca2+ signaling Network, Chonbuk National University Medical School, Jeonju, Korea

Sun-Hwa Lee

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Chonbuk National University Medical School, Jeonju, Korea

Jae-Ki Ko

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Chonbuk National University Medical School, Jeonju, Korea, Institute of Cardiovascular Research, Chonbuk National University Medical School, Jeonju, Korea

Kyu Yoon Jang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Chonbuk National University Medical School, Jeonju, Korea

Donghee Kim

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Uh-Hyun Kim

uhkim@chonbuk.ac.kr

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Chonbuk National University Medical School, Jeonju, Korea, National Creative Research Laboratory for Ca2+ signaling Network, Chonbuk National University Medical School, Jeonju, Korea, Institute of Cardiovascular Research, Chonbuk National University Medical School, Jeonju, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RG D-RP U-HK. Performed the experiments: RG D-RP AS S-YI T-SN S-HL J-KK KYJ. Analyzed the data: RG D-RP DK U-HK. Wrote the paper: RG D-RP DK U-HK.