About the Authors

Tim Peters

Affiliation Center for Heart Failure Research, Department of Cardiology, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Steffie Hermans-Beijnsberger

Affiliation Center for Heart Failure Research, Department of Cardiology, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Abdelaziz Beqqali

Affiliation Department of Experimental Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Nicole Bitsch

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Shinichi Nakagawa

Affiliation RNA Biology Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan

Kannanganattu V. Prasanth

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America

Leon J. de Windt

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Ralph J. van Oort

Affiliation Department of Experimental Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Stephane Heymans

Affiliations Center for Heart Failure Research, Department of Cardiology, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Netherlands Heart Institute (ICIN), Utrecht, The Netherlands, Centre for Molecular and Vascular Biology (CMVB), Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Blanche Schroen

B.Schroen@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Affiliation Center for Heart Failure Research, Department of Cardiology, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TP BS. Performed the experiments: TP SHB AB NB. Analyzed the data: TP SHB AB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SN KVP LJDW RJVO SH. Wrote the paper: TP SH BS.