About the Authors

Eman A. Hamad

Affiliations Department of Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Center, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Medicine, The Center for Translational Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Weizhong Zhu

Arthur.Feldman@Temple.edu (AMF); Weizhong.Zhu@Temple.edu (WZ)

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Center, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Tung O. Chan

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The Center for Translational Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Valerie Myers

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Center, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Erhe Gao

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Center, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Xue Li

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The Center for Translational Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jin Zhang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The Center for Translational Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jianliang Song

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Center, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Xue-Qian Zhang

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Center, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Joseph Y. Cheung

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Center, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Walter Koch

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Center, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Arthur M. Feldman

Arthur.Feldman@Temple.edu (AMF); Weizhong.Zhu@Temple.edu (WZ)

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Center, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EAH WZZ TOC AMF. Performed the experiments: EAH WZZ TOC VM EHG XL JZ JLS XQZ. Analyzed the data: EAH WZZ TOC JYC WK AMF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VM JZ. Wrote the paper: WZZ TOC AFM.