About the Authors

Srinivasan Ramachandran

Affiliation Center for Nanomedicine, The University of Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Lai-Hua Xie

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, University of California at Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Scott A. John

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, University of California at Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Shankar Subramaniam

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: shankar@sdsc.edu (SS); rlal@uchicago.edu (RL)

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Ratnesh Lal

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: shankar@sdsc.edu (SS); rlal@uchicago.edu (RL)

Affiliation Center for Nanomedicine, The University of Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS RL SR SJ. Performed the experiments: SR LX. Analyzed the data: RL SR LX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJ. Wrote the paper: SS RL SR SJ.