About the Authors

Agata Jurczyk

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Steven C. Pino

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bryan O'Sullivan-Murphy

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Martha Addorio

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Erich A. Lidstone

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Philip diIorio

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kathryn L. Lipson

Affiliation Department of Physical and Biological Sciences, Western New England College, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States of America

Clive Standley

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kevin Fogarty

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lawrence Lifshitz

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Fumihiko Urano

Affiliations Program in Gene Function and Expression, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

John P. Mordes

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dale L. Greiner

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Aldo A. Rossini

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rita Bortell

Rita.Bortell@umassmed.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AJ SCP Pd FU JPM DLG AAR RB. Performed the experiments: AJ BOM MA EAL KLL CS. Analyzed the data: AJ KF LL AAR RB. Wrote the paper: AJ Pd JPM AAR RB.