About the Authors

Adam J. Guess

Affiliation Center for Clinical and Translational Research, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Rose Ayoob

Affiliation Center for Clinical and Translational Research, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Melinda Chanley

Affiliation Center for Clinical and Translational Research, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Joshua Manley

Affiliation Center for Clinical and Translational Research, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Mariana M. Cajaiba

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Shipra Agrawal

Affiliation Center for Clinical and Translational Research, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Ruma Pengal

Affiliation Center for Clinical and Translational Research, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Amy L. Pyle

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Brian Becknell

Affiliation Center for Clinical and Translational Research, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Jeffrey B. Kopp

Affiliation Kidney Disease Section, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Natalia Ronkina

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Matthias Gaestel

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Rainer Benndorf

rainer.benndorf@nationwidechildrens.org

Affiliations Center for Clinical and Translational Research, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

William E. Smoyer

Affiliations Center for Clinical and Translational Research, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RB WES. Performed the experiments: AJG RA MC JM SA RP ALP. Analyzed the data: AJG MMC BB RB ALP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JBK NR MG. Wrote the paper: RB WES.