About the Authors

Dongqi Xing

dqxing@uab.edu

Affiliation Vascular Biology and Hypertension Program, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Suzanne Oparil

Affiliation Vascular Biology and Hypertension Program, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Hao Yu

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Kaizheng Gong

Affiliations Vascular Biology and Hypertension Program, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Cardiology, The Second Clinical Medical School, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China

Wenguang Feng

Affiliation Vascular Biology and Hypertension Program, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Jonathan Black

Affiliation Vascular Biology and Hypertension Program, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Yiu-Fai Chen

Affiliation Vascular Biology and Hypertension Program, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Susan Nozell

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DX SO YFC SEN. Performed the experiments: DX HY KG WF JB SEN. Analyzed the data: DX SO KG WF YFC SEN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DX SO YFC SEN. Wrote the paper: DX SO SEN.