About the Authors

Raffi Bekeredjian

Contributed equally to this work with: Raffi Bekeredjian, Chad B. Walton

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Chad B. Walton

Contributed equally to this work with: Raffi Bekeredjian, Chad B. Walton

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Keith A. MacCannell

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Jennifer Ecker

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Fred Kruse

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Joel T. Outten

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

David Sutcliffe

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Robert D. Gerard

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Richard K. Bruick

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Ralph V. Shohet

shohet@hawaii.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RB CBW KAM RDG RKB RVS. Performed the experiments: RB CBW KAM JE FK JTO DS RDG RKB. Analyzed the data: RB CBW KAM JE FK JTO DS RKB RVS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RB RKB RVS. Wrote the paper: RB CBW KAM JTO RVS.