About the Authors

Addie E. Embry

Affiliation Nephrology and Medicine, U.T. Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Hamid Mohammadi

Affiliation Center for Matrix Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Xinying Niu

Affiliation Nephrology and Medicine, U.T. Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Liping Liu

Affiliation Nephrology and Medicine, U.T. Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Borren Moe

Current Address: Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada

Affiliation Nephrology and Medicine, U.T. Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

William A. Miller-Little

Current Address: MSTP Case-Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Affiliation Nephrology and Medicine, U.T. Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Christopher Y. Lu

Affiliation Nephrology and Medicine, U.T. Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Leslie A. Bruggeman

Affiliation Nephrology, MetroHealth Medical Center, Case-Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Christopher A. McCulloch

Affiliation Center for Matrix Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Paul A. Janmey

Affiliation Physiology and Biophysics, Institute for Medicine and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

R. Tyler Miller

tyler.miller@utsouthwestern.edu

Affiliations Nephrology and Medicine, U.T. Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Medicine, Dallas VAMC, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RTM PAJ LAB CAM. Data curation: AEE HM XN LL BM WAM CYL LAB CAM PAJ RTM. Formal analysis: RTM PAJ LAB CAM AEE. Funding acquisition: RTM PAJ LAB. Investigation: AEE WAM BM XN LL HM LAB. Methodology: RTM PAJ LAB CAM. Project administration: RTM PAJ LAB. Resources: RTM PAJ LAB CAM. Validation: AEE HM XN LL BM WAM CYL LAB CAM PAJ RTM. Visualization: AEE LL HM RTM. Writing – original draft: RTM. Writing – review & editing: PAJ LAB CAM.