About the Authors

Daniel K. Shanley

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Patrick A. Kiely

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, and Materials and Surface Science Institute, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

Kalyan Golla

Affiliation Molecular & Cellular Therapeutics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Seamus Allen

Affiliation Molecular & Cellular Therapeutics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Kenneth Martin

Affiliation Centre for Research in Vascular Biology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Ronan T. O’Riordan

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Melanie Ball

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

John D. Aplin

Affiliation Maternal and Fetal Health, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Bernhard B. Singer

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

Noel Caplice

Affiliation Centre for Research in Vascular Biology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Niamh Moran

nmoran@rcsi.ie (NM); t.moore@ucc.ie (TM)

Affiliation Molecular & Cellular Therapeutics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Tom Moore

nmoran@rcsi.ie (NM); t.moore@ucc.ie (TM)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TM NM NC JDA BBS PAK. Performed the experiments: DKS PAK KG SA KM RTOR MB JDA. Analyzed the data: DKS PAK KG KM RTOR JDA BBS NC NM TM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PAK JDA BBS NC NM TM. Wrote the paper: DKS PAK KG SA KM RTOR NM TM.