About the Authors

Jun-dae Kim

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Cardiovascular Regeneration, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, United States of America

Lingping Zhu

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Center for Cardiovascular Regeneration, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, United States of America, Department of Geriatric Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, P.R. China

Quan Sun

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Center for Cardiovascular Regeneration, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, United States of America, Department of Geriatric Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, P.R. China

Longhou Fang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lhfang@houstonmethodist.org

Affiliations Center for Cardiovascular Regeneration, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, United States of America, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, United States of America, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, United States of America

Competing Interests

Longhou Fang is the shared inventor of the patent on “methods for treating inflammatory responses or diseases caused by inflammation using APOA-I binding protein (APOA1BP)” (patent number: 10364275). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors declare no conflict of interest.