About the Authors

Beiyun Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Beiyun Zhou, Stephen T. Buckley

Affiliation Will Rogers Institute Pulmonary Research Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Stephen T. Buckley

Contributed equally to this work with: Beiyun Zhou, Stephen T. Buckley

Affiliation School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Vipul Patel

Affiliation Will Rogers Institute Pulmonary Research Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Yixin Liu

Affiliation Will Rogers Institute Pulmonary Research Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jiao Luo

Affiliation Will Rogers Institute Pulmonary Research Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Manda Sai Krishnaveni

Affiliation Will Rogers Institute Pulmonary Research Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Mihaela Ivan

Affiliation Will Rogers Institute Pulmonary Research Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Lucas DeMaio

Affiliation Will Rogers Institute Pulmonary Research Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Kwang-Jin Kim

Affiliation Will Rogers Institute Pulmonary Research Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Carsten Ehrhardt

Affiliation School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Edward D. Crandall

Affiliation Will Rogers Institute Pulmonary Research Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Zea Borok

boro@usc.edu

Affiliations Will Rogers Institute Pulmonary Research Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BZ STB VP ZB. Performed the experiments: BZ STB VP YL JL MSK MI. Analyzed the data: BZ STB VP YL ZB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LD KJK. Wrote the paper: BZ STB VP KJK CE EDC ZB.