About the Authors

Xin-Hua Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin-Hua Cheng, Markaisa Black

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Biology, the Perinatal Institute of Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Markaisa Black

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin-Hua Cheng, Markaisa Black

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Biology, the Perinatal Institute of Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Vladimir Ustiyan

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Biology, the Perinatal Institute of Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Tien Le

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Biology, the Perinatal Institute of Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Logan Fulford

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Biology, the Perinatal Institute of Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Anusha Sridharan

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Biology, the Perinatal Institute of Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Mario Medvedovic

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Vladimir V. Kalinichenko

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Biology, the Perinatal Institute of Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Jeffrey A. Whitsett

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Biology, the Perinatal Institute of Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Tanya V. Kalin

Tatiana.kalin@cchmc.org

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Biology, the Perinatal Institute of Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TVK VVK. Performed the experiments: XHC MB VU TL AS LF. Analyzed the data: TVK MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VVK JAW MM. Wrote the paper: TVK VVK JAW.