About the Authors

Alexander F. Bruns

Affiliation Endothelial Cell Biology Unit, School for Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Nadira Yuldasheva

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular and Diabetes Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Antony M. Latham

Affiliation Endothelial Cell Biology Unit, School for Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Leyuan Bao

Affiliation Endothelial Cell Biology Unit, School for Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Caroline Pellet-Many

Affiliation Centre for Cardiovascular Biology and Medicine, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Paul Frankel

Affiliation Centre for Cardiovascular Biology and Medicine, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Sam L. Stephen

Affiliation Endothelial Cell Biology Unit, School for Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Gareth J. Howell

Affiliation Endothelial Cell Biology Unit, School for Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Stephen B. Wheatcroft

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular and Diabetes Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Mark T. Kearney

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular and Diabetes Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Ian C. Zachary

Affiliation Centre for Cardiovascular Biology and Medicine, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Sreenivasan Ponnambalam

s.ponnambalam@leeds.ac.uk

Affiliation Endothelial Cell Biology Unit, School for Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AFB SP ICZ NY. Performed the experiments: AFB NY AML LB CPM PF SLS GJH. Analyzed the data: AFB SP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SBW MTK ICZ. Wrote the paper: AFB AML SP.