About the Authors

Silke Roedder

Contributed equally to this work with: Silke Roedder, Naoyuki Kimura

Affiliation Transplant Research Program Sutter Health Care, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Naoyuki Kimura

Contributed equally to this work with: Silke Roedder, Naoyuki Kimura

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Homare Okamura

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Szu-Chuan Hsieh

Affiliation Transplant Research Program Sutter Health Care, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Yongquan Gong

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Minnie M. Sarwal

Msarwal@psg.ucsf.edu

Affiliation Transplant Research Program Sutter Health Care, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SR NK MS. Performed the experiments: SR NK HO YG SH. Analyzed the data: SR NK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS. Wrote the paper: SR MS NK.