About the Authors

Delphine Meynard

meynard-sautet.delphine@mgh.harvard.edu (DM); Lin.Herbert@mgh.harvard.edu (HYL)

Affiliation Program in Anemia Signaling Research, Division of Nephrology, Program in Membrane Biology, Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Chia Chi Sun

Affiliation Program in Anemia Signaling Research, Division of Nephrology, Program in Membrane Biology, Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Qifang Wu

Affiliation Program in Anemia Signaling Research, Division of Nephrology, Program in Membrane Biology, Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Wenjie Chen

Affiliation Program in Anemia Signaling Research, Division of Nephrology, Program in Membrane Biology, Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Shanzhuo Chen

Affiliation Program in Anemia Signaling Research, Division of Nephrology, Program in Membrane Biology, Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Caroline N. Nelson

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia

Michael J. Waters

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia

Jodie L. Babitt

Affiliation Program in Anemia Signaling Research, Division of Nephrology, Program in Membrane Biology, Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Herbert Y. Lin

meynard-sautet.delphine@mgh.harvard.edu (DM); Lin.Herbert@mgh.harvard.edu (HYL)

Affiliation Program in Anemia Signaling Research, Division of Nephrology, Program in Membrane Biology, Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

CCS, JLB and HYL have ownership interest in a start-up company Ferrumax Pharmaceuticals, which has licensed technology from the Massachusetts General Hospital based on their work. DM, QW, WC, SC, CN, MW have none to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DM JLB HYL. Performed the experiments: DM CCS QW WC SC. Analyzed the data: DM JLB HYL. Wrote the paper: DM JLB HYL. Provided expertise on STAT5 and STAT5b plasmid: CNN MJW. Interpreted the data: DM JLB HYL.