About the Authors

Nagaraj M. Gowda

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Xianzhu Wu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sanjeev Kumar

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Maria Febbraio

Affiliation Molecular Cardiology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

D. Channe Gowda

gowda@psu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK NMG XW MF DCG. Performed the experiments: NMG XW. Analyzed the data: NMG XW DCG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MF. Wrote the paper: DCG NMG XW.