About the Authors

Rhys Hamon

Contributed equally to this work with: Rhys Hamon, Claire C. Homan, Hai B. Tran

Affiliation Discipline of Medicine, University of Adelaide, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, South Australia, Australia

Claire C. Homan

Contributed equally to this work with: Rhys Hamon, Claire C. Homan, Hai B. Tran

Affiliation Discipline of Medicine, University of Adelaide, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, South Australia, Australia

Hai B. Tran

Contributed equally to this work with: Rhys Hamon, Claire C. Homan, Hai B. Tran

Affiliations Discipline of Medicine, University of Adelaide, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, South Australia, Australia, Department of Thoracic Medicine, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Lung Research Laboratory, Hanson Institute, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Violet R. Mukaro

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Medicine, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Lung Research Laboratory, Hanson Institute, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Susan E. Lester

Affiliation Rheumatology Unit, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, South Australia, Australia

Eugene Roscioli

Affiliation Discipline of Surgery, University of Adelaide, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, South Australia, Australia

Mariea D. Bosco

Affiliation Discipline of Medicine, University of Adelaide, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, South Australia, Australia

Chiara M. Murgia

Affiliation CRA-NUT, Roma, Italy

Margaret Leigh Ackland

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Hubertus P. Jersmann

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Medicine, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Lung Research Laboratory, Hanson Institute, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Carol Lang

Affiliation Discipline of Medicine, University of Adelaide, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, South Australia, Australia

Peter D. Zalewski

peter.zalewski@adelaide.edu.au

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Discipline of Medicine, University of Adelaide, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, South Australia, Australia

Sandra J. Hodge

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Discipline of Medicine, University of Adelaide, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, South Australia, Australia, Department of Thoracic Medicine, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Lung Research Laboratory, Hanson Institute, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RH CCH HBT CMM HPJ CL PDZ SJH. Performed the experiments: RH CCH HBT VRM ER MDB CMM PDZ SJH. Analyzed the data: RH CCH HBT VRM SEL ER MDB CMM MLA HPJ CL PDZ SJH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MLA. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: RH CCH HBT VRM SEL ER MDB CMM MLA HPJ CL PDZ SJH.