About the Authors

Li-Juan Duan

Affiliation The Center for Vascular Biology, Department of Cell Biology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

Kotaro Takeda

Affiliation The Center for Vascular Biology, Department of Cell Biology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

Guo-Hua Fong

fong@nso2.uchc.edu

Affiliation The Center for Vascular Biology, Department of Cell Biology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GHF. Performed the experiments: LJD KT. Analyzed the data: LJD KT GHF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LJD KT GHF. Wrote the paper: LJD GHF.