About the Authors

Binggang Xiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Binggang Xiang, Guoying Zhang

Affiliation Saha Cardiovascular Research Center, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Guoying Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Binggang Xiang, Guoying Zhang

Affiliation Saha Cardiovascular Research Center, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Hongmei Ren

Affiliation Saha Cardiovascular Research Center, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Manjula Sunkara

Affiliation Saha Cardiovascular Research Center, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Andrew J. Morris

Affiliation Saha Cardiovascular Research Center, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

T. Kent Gartner

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Susan S. Smyth

Affiliations Saha Cardiovascular Research Center, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Lexington VA Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Zhenyu Li

zhenyuli08@uky.edu

Affiliation Saha Cardiovascular Research Center, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BX GZ SSS ZL. Performed the experiments: BX GZ HR MS AJM ZL. Analyzed the data: BX GZ HR AJM TKG SSS ZL.