About the Authors

Esra Cagavi

Contributed equally to this work with: Esra Cagavi, Oscar Bartulos

Affiliations Yale Cardiovascular Research Center, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale Stem Cell Center, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States of America, Department of Medical Biology, School of Medicine, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey

Oscar Bartulos

Contributed equally to this work with: Esra Cagavi, Oscar Bartulos

Affiliation Yale Cardiovascular Research Center, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale Stem Cell Center, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States of America

Carol Y. Suh

Affiliations Yale Cardiovascular Research Center, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale Stem Cell Center, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States of America

Baonan Sun

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, United States of America

Zhichao Yue

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, United States of America

Zhengxin Jiang

Affiliation Yale Cardiovascular Research Center, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale Stem Cell Center, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States of America

Lixia Yue

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, United States of America

Yibing Qyang

yibing.qyang@yale.edu

Affiliations Yale Cardiovascular Research Center, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale Stem Cell Center, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America, Vascular Biology and Therapeutics Program, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EC OB CS BS ZY ZJ LY YQ. Performed the experiments: EC OB CS BS ZY ZJ. Analyzed the data: EC OB CS BS ZY ZJ LY YQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EC OB CS BS ZY ZJ LY YQ. Wrote the paper: EC OB CS BS ZY ZJ LY YQ.

These authors contributed equally to this work.