About the Authors

Yiru Guo

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Cardiology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Deepali Nivas Tukaye

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Wen-Jian Wu

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Cardiology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Xiaoping Zhu

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Cardiology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Michael Book

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Cardiology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Wei Tan

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Cardiology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Steven P. Jones

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Cardiology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Gregg Rokosh

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Cardiology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Shuh Narumiya

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Qianhong Li

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Cardiology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Roberto Bolli

rbolli@louisville.edu

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Cardiology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YG RB. Performed the experiments: YG WJW XZ WT GR. Analyzed the data: YG WJW WT XZ MB SPJ QL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YG SPJ GR SN. Wrote the paper: YG DNT SPJ RB.