About the Authors

Junhong Gui

Contributed equally to this work with: Junhong Gui, Tao Wang

Affiliation Cardiovascular and Genetic Medicine Research Groups, School of Biomedicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Tao Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Junhong Gui, Tao Wang

Affiliation Cardiovascular and Genetic Medicine Research Groups, School of Biomedicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Richard P. O. Jones

Affiliation Cardiovascular and Genetic Medicine Research Groups, School of Biomedicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Dorothy Trump

Affiliation Cardiovascular and Genetic Medicine Research Groups, School of Biomedicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Thomas Zimmer

thomas.zimmer@mti.uni-jena.de (TZ); ming.lei@manchester.ac.uk (ML)

Affiliation Institute of Physiology II, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

Ming Lei

thomas.zimmer@mti.uni-jena.de (TZ); ming.lei@manchester.ac.uk (ML)

Affiliation Cardiovascular and Genetic Medicine Research Groups, School of Biomedicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JG TW TZ ML. Performed the experiments: JG TW TZ. Analyzed the data: JG TW RPOJ TZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DT ML. Wrote the paper: JG TZ ML. Contributed intellectually to data interpretation and manuscript preparation: TW RPOJ DT TZ. Approved the final version of the manuscript: TW RPOJ DT TZ.