About the Authors

Anna A. Birukova

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna A. Birukova, Sangderk Lee

Affiliation Section of Pulmonary and Critical Medicine, Department of Medicine, Lung Injury Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Sangderk Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna A. Birukova, Sangderk Lee

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Vitaliy Starosta

Affiliation Section of Pulmonary and Critical Medicine, Department of Medicine, Lung Injury Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Tinghuai Wu

Affiliation Section of Pulmonary and Critical Medicine, Department of Medicine, Lung Injury Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Tiffany Ho

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jin Kim

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Judith A. Berliner

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Konstantin G. Birukov

kbirukov@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu

Affiliation Section of Pulmonary and Critical Medicine, Department of Medicine, Lung Injury Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB JB KB. Performed the experiments: SL VS TW TH JK. Analyzed the data: AB JB KB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB JB KB. Wrote the paper: AB JB KB.