About the Authors

Matthew E. Grunewald

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States of America

Yating Chen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States of America

Chad Kuny

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States of America

Takashi Maejima

Roles Resources

Affiliation Center for Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular Sciences, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Robert Lease

Roles Resources

Affiliation McDaniel College, Westminster, MD, United States of America

Dana Ferraris

Roles Resources

Affiliation McDaniel College, Westminster, MD, United States of America

Masanori Aikawa

Roles Resources

Affiliation Center for Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular Sciences, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Christopher S. Sullivan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States of America

Stanley Perlman

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

stanley-perlman@uiowa.edu (SP); arfehr@ku.edu (ARF)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States of America

Anthony R. Fehr

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

stanley-perlman@uiowa.edu (SP); arfehr@ku.edu (ARF)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.