About the Authors

Izumi Oda-Ishii

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Yasuo Ishii

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Takashi Mikawa

takashi.mikawa@ucsf.edu

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IOI TM. Performed the experiments: IOI YI. Analyzed the data: IOI YI TM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IOI. Wrote the paper: IOI YI TM.