About the Authors

Takahiro Ishiwata

Contributed equally to this work with: Takahiro Ishiwata, András Orosz, Xiaohui Wang

Current address: Department of Pediatrics, National Defense Medical College 3-2 Namiki, Tokorozawa, Saitama-ken, Japan

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiac Disease, Redox Signaling and Cell Regeneration, Division of Cardiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

András Orosz

Contributed equally to this work with: Takahiro Ishiwata, András Orosz, Xiaohui Wang

Current address: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiac Disease, Redox Signaling and Cell Regeneration, Division of Cardiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Xiaohui Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Takahiro Ishiwata, András Orosz, Xiaohui Wang

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiac Disease, Redox Signaling and Cell Regeneration, Division of Cardiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Soumyajit Banerjee Mustafi

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiac Disease, Redox Signaling and Cell Regeneration, Division of Cardiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Gregory W. Pratt

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiac Disease, Redox Signaling and Cell Regeneration, Division of Cardiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Elisabeth S. Christians

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiac Disease, Redox Signaling and Cell Regeneration, Division of Cardiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Sihem Boudina

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, and Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

E. Dale Abel

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, and Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Ivor J. Benjamin

ivor.benjamin@hsc.utah.edu

Affiliations Laboratory of Cardiac Disease, Redox Signaling and Cell Regeneration, Division of Cardiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah, School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EDA IJB. Performed the experiments: TI AO XW SBM GWP ESC SB. Analyzed the data: TI AO XW SBM GWP ESC SB EDA IJB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GWP ESC SB EDA. Wrote the paper: TI XW ESC IJB.