About the Authors

Saeed Alshahrani

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Cell Biophysics, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Robert M. Rapoport

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Cell Biophysics, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Kamyar Zahedi

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Center on Genetics of Transport and Epithelial Biology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America, Research Services, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Min Jiang

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Michelle Nieman

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Sharon Barone

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Center on Genetics of Transport and Epithelial Biology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America, Research Services, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Andrea L. Meredith

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

John N. Lorenz

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Jack Rubinstein

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Manoocher Soleimani

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

soleimm@ucmail.uc.edu

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Cell Biophysics, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America, Center on Genetics of Transport and Epithelial Biology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America, Research Services, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.