About the Authors

Jerry Curran

Contributed equally to this work with: Jerry Curran, Lifei Tang, Mark T. Ziolo, Thomas R. Shannon

Affiliation Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Lifei Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jerry Curran, Lifei Tang, Mark T. Ziolo, Thomas R. Shannon

Affiliation Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Steve R. Roof

Affiliation Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Sathya Velmurugan

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Ashley Millard

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Stephen Shonts

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Honglan Wang

Affiliation Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Demetrio Santiago

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Usama Ahmad

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Matthew Perryman

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Donald M. Bers

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Peter J. Mohler

Affiliation Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Mark T. Ziolo

Contributed equally to this work with: Jerry Curran, Lifei Tang, Mark T. Ziolo, Thomas R. Shannon

Ziolo.1@osu.edu (MTZ); tom_shannon@rush.edu (TRS)

Affiliation Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Thomas R. Shannon

Contributed equally to this work with: Jerry Curran, Lifei Tang, Mark T. Ziolo, Thomas R. Shannon

Ziolo.1@osu.edu (MTZ); tom_shannon@rush.edu (TRS)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JC DMB MTZ TRS. Performed the experiments: JC LT SRR SV AM SS HW DS UA MP. Analyzed the data: JC LT SR SV SS HW DS MTZ TRS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PJM MTZ TRS. Wrote the paper: JC MTZ TRS.