About the Authors

Zhiping Wu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Women and Infants' Hospital of Rhode Island, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Abraham W. Aron

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Women and Infants' Hospital of Rhode Island, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Elyse E. Macksoud

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Women and Infants' Hospital of Rhode Island, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Renato V. Iozzo

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Chi-Ming Hai

Affiliation Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biotechnology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Beatrice E. Lechner

blechner@wihri.org

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Women and Infants' Hospital of Rhode Island, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BEL CMH. Performed the experiments: BEL AWA EEM ZW. Analyzed the data: BEL AWA EEM ZW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BEL RVI CMH. Wrote the paper: BEL. Helped with the manuscript: RVI AWA ZW.