About the Authors

Sung Tae Kim

Affiliation Renal Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Tracy L. Adair-Kirk

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Robert M. Senior

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jeffrey H. Miner

minerj@wustl.edu

Affiliations Renal Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JHM. Performed the experiments: STK. Analyzed the data: STK JHM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: STK TLK RMS JHM. Wrote the paper: STK TLK RMS JHM.