About the Authors

Kenneth A. Walker

Contributed equally to this work with: Kenneth A. Walker, Sunder Sims-Lucas

Affiliation Rangos Research Center, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sunder Sims-Lucas

Contributed equally to this work with: Kenneth A. Walker, Sunder Sims-Lucas

Affiliation Rangos Research Center, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Valeria E. Di Giovanni

Affiliation Rangos Research Center, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Caitlin Schaefer

Affiliation Rangos Research Center, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Whitney M. Sunseri

Affiliation Rangos Research Center, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Tatiana Novitskaya

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

Mark P. de Caestecker

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

Feng Chen

Affiliation Renal Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Carlton M. Bates

batescm@upmc.edu

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KAW SSL VED CMB TN MPdC FC. Performed the experiments: KAW SSL VED CMS WS. Analyzed the data: KAW SSL CMB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KAW VED CMS WS TN MPdC FC CMB. Wrote the paper: KAW SSL CMB.