About the Authors

Ting-Lei Gu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ting-Lei Gu, Xiaxing Deng, Feizhou Huang

tgu@cellsignal.com (T-LG); mcomb@cellsignal.com (MGC)

Affiliation Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, Massachusetts, United States of America

Xiaxing Deng

Contributed equally to this work with: Ting-Lei Gu, Xiaxing Deng, Feizhou Huang

Affiliation Center of Organ Transplantation, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Feizhou Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ting-Lei Gu, Xiaxing Deng, Feizhou Huang

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

Meghan Tucker

Affiliation Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, Massachusetts, United States of America

Katherine Crosby

Affiliation Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, Massachusetts, United States of America

Victoria Rimkunas

Affiliation Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yi Wang

Affiliation Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gang Deng

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

Lei Zhu

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

Zhiping Tan

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

Yerong Hu

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

Chunlin Wu

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

Julie Nardone

Affiliation Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, Massachusetts, United States of America

Joan MacNeill

Affiliation Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jianmin Ren

Affiliation Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, Massachusetts, United States of America

Cynthia Reeves

Affiliation Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gregory Innocenti

Affiliation Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, Massachusetts, United States of America

Brett Norris

Affiliation Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jin Yuan

Affiliation Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jian Yu

Affiliation Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, Massachusetts, United States of America

Herbert Haack

Affiliation Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, Massachusetts, United States of America

Baiyong Shen

Affiliation Center of Organ Transplantation, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Chenghong Peng

Affiliation Center of Organ Transplantation, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Hongwei Li

Affiliation Center of Organ Transplantation, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Xinmin Zhou

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

Xunyang Liu

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

John Rush

Affiliation Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael J. Comb

tgu@cellsignal.com (T-LG); mcomb@cellsignal.com (MGC)

Affiliation Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts. T-LG, MT, KC, YW, VR, JN, JM, JR, CR, GI, BN, J. Yuan, J. Yu, HH, JR, and MJC are employees of Cell Signaling Technology. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: T-LG XD FH. Performed the experiments: T-LG XD FH MT KC VR YW GD LZ ZT YH CW JN JM J. Ren CR GI BN J. Yuan J. Yu HH BS CP HL XZ XL J. Rush. Analyzed the data: T-LG XD FH MT KC VR YW GD LZ ZT YH CW JN JM J. Ren CR GI BN J. Yuan J. Yu HH BS CP HL XZ XL JR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HL XL. Wrote the paper: T-LG MJC.