About the Authors

Kosuke Tsukamoto

Affiliation Departments of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lorenna Buck

Affiliation Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Walker Inman

Affiliation Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Linda Griffith

Affiliation Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Olivier Kocher

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Center for Vascular Biology Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Monty Krieger

krieger@mit.edu

Affiliation Departments of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests. OK is is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. LG reports IP around 3D liver cell cultures (not a topic or subject of this manuscript) that is licensed to Zyoxel, Inc. MK is an inventor of patents involving SR-BI (but not the work reported in this manuscript). There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KT LB WI LG OK MK. Performed the experiments: KT LB WI. Analyzed the data: KT LB WI LG OK MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KT LB WI LG MK. Wrote the paper: KT LB LG OK MK.