About the Authors

Hong Y. Choi

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Marco Dieckmann

Affiliations Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Institut für Physiologische Chemie und Pathobiochemie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Joachim Herz

Joachim.Herz@UTSouthwestern.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Andreas Niemeier

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics and IBMII: Molecular Cell Biology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

A.N. received a short-term travel grant from Merck, Sharpe and Dohme. This has or had no influence on data collection, experimental planning, data interpretation, decision to publish or time of publication. M.D. is the recipient of a research fellowship from a non-profit foundation (BIS), which takes no influence in data collection, experimental planning, data interpretation, decision to publish or time of publication. H.C. is the recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association, which takes no influence data collection, experimental planning, data interpretation, decision to publish or time of publication. J.H. and A.N. are the recipients of grants from National funding agencies in the US (NIH for J.H.) and Germany (DFG for A.N.) respectively. Both funding agencies expect these PIs to publish rapidly and extensively and their ability to do so considerably influences future funding. This may be interpreted as constituting a significant conflict of interest for J.H. and A.N., solely to indicate this fact. No other conflicts of interest exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JH AN. Performed the experiments: HYC MD AN. Analyzed the data: HYC MD JH AN. Wrote the paper: JH AN.