About the Authors

Nathan S Blow

Affiliation Department of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Robert N Salomon

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kerry Garrity

Affiliation Molecular Cardiology Research Institute, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Isabelle Reveillaud

Affiliation Molecular Cardiology Research Institute, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alan Kopin

Affiliation Molecular Cardiology Research Institute, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

F. Rob Jackson

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Paula I Watnick

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: pwatnick@tufts-nemc.org

Affiliation Department of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

NSB, RNS, AK, FRJ, and PIW conceived and designed the experiments. NSB and RNS performed the experiments. NSB, RNS, and PIW analyzed the data. KG, IR, and AK contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. NSB and PIW wrote the paper.