About the Authors

Tanja Steiner

Contributed equally to this work with: Tanja Steiner, Lorenza Francescut, Cordula Stover

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Science, Medical School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Lorenza Francescut

Contributed equally to this work with: Tanja Steiner, Lorenza Francescut, Cordula Stover

Affiliation Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Simon Byrne

Affiliation Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Timothy Hughes

Affiliation Institute of Infection & Immunity, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Archana Jayanthi

Affiliation Institute of Infection & Immunity, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Irina Guschina

Affiliation School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

John Harwood

Affiliation School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Katherine Cianflone

Affiliation Centre de Recherche de l’Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec (CRIUCPQ), Université Laval, Québec, Canada

Cordula Stover

Contributed equally to this work with: Tanja Steiner, Lorenza Francescut, Cordula Stover

Affiliation Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Sheila Francis

s.francis@sheffield.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Science, Medical School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SF CS. Performed the experiments: TS LF SB TH AJ IG SF CS. Analyzed the data: TS LF SB TH CS SF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IG JH TH. Wrote the paper: TS TH KC CS SF.