About the Authors

Jennifer M. Noto

jennifer.noto@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Tinatin Khizanishvili

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Rupesh Chaturvedi

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

M. Blanca Piazuelo

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Judith Romero-Gallo

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Alberto G. Delgado

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Shradha S. Khurana

Affiliation Departments of Medicine, Pathology and Immunology, and Developmental Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Johanna C. Sierra

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Uma S. Krishna

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Giovanni Suarez

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Anne E. Powell

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

James R. Goldenring

Affiliation Departments of Surgery and Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Robert J. Coffey

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Departments of Medicine and Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Vincent W. Yang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Pelayo Correa

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Jason C. Mills

Affiliation Departments of Medicine, Pathology and Immunology, and Developmental Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Keith T. Wilson

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Veterans Affairs Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Richard M. Peek Jr.

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Revised the article critically for important intellectual content: RC MBP JR GS JRG RJC VWY PC JCM KTW RMP. Conceived and designed the experiments: JMN RMP. Performed the experiments: JMN TK RC MBP JR AGD SSK JCS USK GS. Analyzed the data: JMN RC MBP JR SSK JCS USK GS JCM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RC AGD SSK AEP JRG RJC VWY PC JCM KTW. Wrote the paper: JMN RMP.