About the Authors

Junya Sato

Contributed equally to this work with: Junya Sato, Mitsuo Kinugasa

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Mitsuo Kinugasa

Contributed equally to this work with: Junya Sato, Mitsuo Kinugasa

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Seimi Satomi-Kobayashi

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Kinta Hatakeyama

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

Aaron J. Knox

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Physiology, and Biophysics, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Yujiro Asada

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

Margaret E. Wierman

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Physiology, and Biophysics, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Ken-ichi Hirata

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Yoshiyuki Rikitake

rikitake@med.kobe-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, Division of Signal Transduction, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: K. Hirata YR. Performed the experiments: JS MK SS. Analyzed the data: JS MK YR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: K. Hatakeyama AJK YA MEW. Wrote the paper: JS MK YR.