About the Authors

Anagha Sen

Contributed equally to this work with: Anagha Sen, Patrick Most

Affiliation Center for Translational Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Shumei Ren

Affiliation Center for Translational Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Carolin Lerchenmüller

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular and Translational Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine III, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Jianxin Sun

Affiliation Center for Translational Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Norbert Weiss

Affiliation Center for Vascular Medicine, Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Patrick Most

Contributed equally to this work with: Anagha Sen, Patrick Most

Affiliations Center for Translational Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Laboratory for Molecular and Translational Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine III, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Karsten Peppel

Karsten.Peppel@Jefferson.edu

Affiliation Center for Translational Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS PM CL KP. Performed the experiments: AS SR PM KP. Analyzed the data: AS PM KP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JS NW. Wrote the paper: KP. Secured IRB compliance of human specimen collection, approved final draft of manuscript: NW.