About the Authors

Ursula Andreo

Contributed equally to this work with: Ursula Andreo, Liang Guo

Affiliation Department of Medicine (Cardiology) and the Marc and Ruti Bell Program in Vascular Biology; and the Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Liang Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Ursula Andreo, Liang Guo

Affiliation Department of Medicine (Cardiology) and the Marc and Ruti Bell Program in Vascular Biology; and the Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Doru V. Chirieac

Affiliation Department of Medicine (Cardiology) and the Marc and Ruti Bell Program in Vascular Biology; and the Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Ana C. Tuyama

Affiliations Department of Medicine (Cardiology) and the Marc and Ruti Bell Program in Vascular Biology; and the Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics and Metabolism, Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Emilie Montenont

Affiliation Department of Medicine (Cardiology) and the Marc and Ruti Bell Program in Vascular Biology; and the Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Jeffrey L. Brodsky

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Edward A. Fisher

edward.fisher@nyumc.org

Affiliation Department of Medicine (Cardiology) and the Marc and Ruti Bell Program in Vascular Biology; and the Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EAF DVC. Performed the experiments: UA LG DVC AT EM. Analyzed the data: UA LG DVC AT JLB EAF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: UA LG DVC AT . Wrote the paper: UA LG AT JLB EAF.