About the Authors

Brian Becknell

Affiliations Section of Nephrology, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Center for Clinical and Translational Research, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

John David Spencer

Affiliations Section of Nephrology, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Center for Clinical and Translational Research, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Ashley R. Carpenter

Affiliations Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Center for Molecular and Human Genetics, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Xi Chen

Affiliation Center for Clinical and Translational Research, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Aspinder Singh

Affiliation Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Suzanne Ploeger

Affiliation Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Jennifer Kline

Affiliation Center for Clinical and Translational Research, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Patrick Ellsworth

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Birong Li

Affiliation Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Ehrhardt Proksch

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Andrew L. Schwaderer

Affiliations Section of Nephrology, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Center for Clinical and Translational Research, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

David S. Hains

Affiliations Section of Nephrology, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Center for Clinical and Translational Research, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Sheryl S. Justice

Sheryl.Justice@nationwidechildrens.org (SSJ); Kirk.McHugh@nationwidechildrens.org (KMM)

Affiliation Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Kirk M. McHugh

Sheryl.Justice@nationwidechildrens.org (SSJ); Kirk.McHugh@nationwidechildrens.org (KMM)

Affiliation Center for Molecular and Human Genetics, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BB JDS ALS DSH SSJ KMM. Performed the experiments: BB JDS ARC XC AS SP JK PE BL. Analyzed the data: BB ALS DSH SSJ KMM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EP. Wrote the manuscript: BB SSJ KMM.