About the Authors

Dongqi Xing

Contributed equally to this work with: Dongqi Xing, Kaizheng Gong

dqxing@uab.edu

Affiliation Vascular Biology and Hypertension Program, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Kaizheng Gong

Contributed equally to this work with: Dongqi Xing, Kaizheng Gong

Affiliations Vascular Biology and Hypertension Program, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China

Wenguang Feng

Affiliation Vascular Biology and Hypertension Program, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Susan E. Nozell

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Yiu-Fai Chen

Affiliation Vascular Biology and Hypertension Program, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

John C. Chatham

Affiliation Division of Molecular and Cellular Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Suzanne Oparil

Affiliation Vascular Biology and Hypertension Program, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DX Y-FC SO. Performed the experiments: DX KG WF. Analyzed the data: DX KG WF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DX JCC SEN YF-C SO. Wrote the paper: DX JCC SO.