About the Authors

Debbie Clements

debbie.clements@nottingham.ac.uk

Affiliation Division of Respiratory Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Arundhati Dongre

Affiliation Division of Respiratory Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Vera P. Krymskaya

Affiliation Pulmonary, Allergy, & Critical Care Division University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Simon R. Johnson

Affiliation Division of Respiratory Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DC AD SRJ. Performed the experiments: DC AD. Analyzed the data: DC AD SRJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VPK. Wrote the paper: SRJ DC.