About the Authors

Amy Brown

Contributed equally to this work with: Amy Brown, Intekhab Hossain

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Intekhab Hossain

Contributed equally to this work with: Amy Brown, Intekhab Hossain

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Lester J. Perez

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

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Carine Nzirorera

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Kathleen Tozer

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Kenneth D’Souza

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Purvi C. Trivedi

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Christie Aguiar

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research New Brunswick, Saint John Regional Hospital, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Alexandra M. Yip

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research New Brunswick, Saint John Regional Hospital, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Jennifer Shea

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Saint John Regional Hospital, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Keith R. Brunt

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Jean-Francois Legare

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cardiovascular Research New Brunswick, Saint John Regional Hospital, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, Department of Cardiac Surgery, New Brunswick Heart Centre, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Ansar Hassan

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cardiovascular Research New Brunswick, Saint John Regional Hospital, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, Department of Cardiac Surgery, New Brunswick Heart Centre, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Thomas Pulinilkunnil

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Petra C. Kienesberger

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

pkienesb@dal.ca

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.