About the Authors

Zhongkui Hong

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhongkui Hong, Kimberley J. Reeves

Affiliations Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Kimberley J. Reeves

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhongkui Hong, Kimberley J. Reeves

Current address: Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Unit, Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, Paterson Building, the University of Manchester, Manchester, M20 4BX, United Kingdom

Affiliation Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Zhe Sun

Affiliations Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Zhaohui Li

Affiliation Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Nicola J. Brown

Affiliation Department of Oncology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Gerald A. Meininger

Meiningerg@missouri.edu

Affiliations Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZH KJR NJB GAM. Performed the experiments: KJR ZL. Analyzed the data: KJR ZS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZH KJR ZS ZL. Wrote the paper: ZH KJR NJB GAM. Supervised the study: GAM.