Pten regulates collagen fibrillogenesis by fibroblasts through SPARC

• Caitlin E. Jones ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Caitlin E. Jones, Joe T. Sharick

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

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Joe T. Sharick ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Caitlin E. Jones, Joe T. Sharick

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

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Sheila E. Colbert,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Vasudha C. Shukla,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Joshua M. Zent,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Michael C. Ostrowski,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Samir N. Ghadiali,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, College of Medicine and Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, College of Medicine and Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Steven T. Sizemore,

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

  Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, The James Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Jennifer L. Leight

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: leight.1@osu.edu

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, The James Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4510-1086

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