About the Authors

Weiling Xu

Affiliation Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Nayra Cardenes

Affiliation Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Catherine Corey

Affiliation Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Serpil C. Erzurum

Affiliation Lerner Research Institute, Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Sruti Shiva

sss43@pitt.edu

Affiliation Vascular Medicine Institute, Dept of Pharmacology & Chemical Biology, Center for Metabolism and Mitochondrial Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SCE SS. Performed the experiments: WX NC CC. Analyzed the data: WX CC SCE SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SCE SS. Wrote the paper: WX SCE SS.