About the Authors

Jianbing Zhang

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal & Avian Sciences and Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, Maryland, United States of America

Ian Chambers

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Animal & Avian Sciences and Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, Maryland, United States of America

Sijung Yun

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney, Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

John Phillips

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Division of Hematology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Michael Krause

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney, Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Iqbal Hamza

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

hamza@umd.edu

Affiliation Department of Animal & Avian Sciences and Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

IH is the President and Founder of Rakta Therapeutics Inc. (College Park, MD), a company involved in the development of heme transporter-related diagnostics. He declares no other competing financial interests.