About the Authors

Alexander W. Lange

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Angela R. Keiser

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

James M. Wells

Affiliation Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Aaron M. Zorn

Affiliation Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Jeffrey A. Whitsett

Jeffrey.Whitsett@chmcc.org

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AWL. Performed the experiments: AWL. Analyzed the data: AWL ARK JAW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW AMZ. Wrote the paper: AWL JAW.