About the Authors

Chunxiang Yao

Affiliation Vascular Biology Section, Department of Medicine, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jessica B. Behring

Affiliation Vascular Biology Section, Department of Medicine, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Di Shao

Affiliation Vascular Biology Section, Department of Medicine, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Aaron L. Sverdlov

Affiliation Myocardial Biology Unit, Department of Medicine, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Stephen A. Whelan

Affiliation Cardiovascular Proteomics Center, Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Aly Elezaby

Affiliation Myocardial Biology Unit, Department of Medicine, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Xiaoyan Yin

Affiliations Boston University and National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Deborah A. Siwik

Affiliation Myocardial Biology Unit, Department of Medicine, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Francesca Seta

Affiliation Vascular Biology Section, Department of Medicine, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Catherine E. Costello

Affiliation Cardiovascular Proteomics Center, Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Richard A. Cohen

Affiliation Vascular Biology Section, Department of Medicine, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Reiko Matsui

Affiliation Vascular Biology Section, Department of Medicine, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Wilson S. Colucci

Affiliation Myocardial Biology Unit, Department of Medicine, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mark E. McComb

bach@bu.edu (MMB); mccomb@bu.edu (MEM)

Affiliation Cardiovascular Proteomics Center, Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Markus M. Bachschmid

bach@bu.edu (MMB); mccomb@bu.edu (MEM)

Affiliation Vascular Biology Section, Department of Medicine, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CY JBB ALS SAW RAC MEM MMB. Performed the experiments: CY JBB DS ALS SAW AE DAS. Analyzed the data: CY JBB ALS XY MEM MMB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XY DAS FS CEC WSC RAC MEM. Wrote the paper: CY JBB FS CEC WSC RAC RM MEM MMB.