About the Authors

Yoshiro Maezawa

Affiliation The Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Matthew Binnie

Affiliation Division of Respirology, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Chengjin Li

Affiliation The Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Paul Thorner

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Laboratory Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Chi-Chung Hui

Affiliation Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Benjamin Alman

Affiliations Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Makoto Mark Taketo

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Susan E. Quaggin

quaggin@lunenfeld.ca

Affiliations The Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Division of Nephrology, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SEQ. Performed the experiments: YM MB CL. Analyzed the data: YM PT SEQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CCH BA MMT. Wrote the paper: YM CCH MMT SEQ.