About the Authors

Steven J. McElroy

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Stuart Hobbs

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Michael Kallen

Affiliation Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Noemi Tejera

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Michael J. Rosen

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Anatoly Grishin

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Surgery, Saban Research Institute, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Poojitha Matta

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Claus Schneider

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Jeffrey Upperman

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Surgery, Saban Research Institute, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Henri Ford

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Surgery, Saban Research Institute, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

D. Brent Polk

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern California and Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jörn-Hendrik Weitkamp

hendrik.weitkamp@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SJM SH AG CS JHW. Performed the experiments: SH MK NT PM. Analyzed the data: SJM SH MJR AG JHW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJR CS JU HF DBP. Wrote the paper: SJM SH MK JHW.