About the Authors

Supparerk Disayabutr

Current Address: Division of Respiratory Disease and Tuberculosis, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Eun Kyung Kim

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, CHA Bundang Medical Center, College of Medicine, CHA University, Seongnam, Korea

Seung-Ick Cha

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu, Korea

Gary Green

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Ram P. Naikawadi

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Kirk D. Jones

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jeffrey A. Golden

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Aaron Schroeder

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Michael A. Matthay

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jasleen Kukreja

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

David J. Erle

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Harold R. Collard

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Paul J. Wolters

paul.wolters@ucsf.edu

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SD PJW. Performed the experiments: SD EKK SC GG RPN AS DJE. Analyzed the data: SD PJW EKK SC GG RPN AS KDJ JAG MAM JK HRC DJE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KDJ JAG MAM JK HRC DJE. Wrote the paper: SD PJW.