About the Authors

Nikolai Sopko

Affiliation Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Yilu Qin

Current address: Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Cardiology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Amanda Finan

Affiliation Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Alisher Dadabayev

Affiliation Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Sravanthi Chigurupati

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Texas A & M Health Science Center, College of Medicine, Scott and White, Central Texas Veterans Health Care System, Temple, Texas, United States of America

Jun Qin

Affiliation Department of Molecular Cardiology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Marc S. Penn

Affiliation Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Sudhiranjan Gupta

sgupta@medicine.tamhsc.edu

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Texas A & M Health Science Center, College of Medicine, Scott and White, Central Texas Veterans Health Care System, Temple, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Cardiology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG JQ. Performed the experiments: SG NS YQ AF AD SC. Analyzed the data: SG NS AF JQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSP JQ. Wrote the paper: SG NS JQ.