About the Authors

Aurélien Palmyre

Affiliation Nephrology Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeongeun Lee

Affiliations Nephrology Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, NYIT COM, Old Westbury, New York, United States of America

Gennadiy Ryklin

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, NYIT COM, Old Westbury, New York, United States of America

Troy Camarata

Affiliation Nephrology Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Martin K. Selig

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Anne-Laure Duchemin

Current address: Centre for Organismal Studies, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Affiliation Nephrology Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Paul Nowak

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, NYIT COM, Old Westbury, New York, United States of America

M. Amin Arnaout

Affiliations Nephrology Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Iain A. Drummond

Affiliations Nephrology Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Aleksandr Vasilyev

avasilye@nyit.edu

Affiliations Nephrology Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, NYIT COM, Old Westbury, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AV IAD. Performed the experiments: AV AP JL TC MS PN. Analyzed the data: AV AP GR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AV AD MAA IAD. Wrote the paper: AV AP IAD. Provided assistance in writing the manuscript: MAA.