About the Authors

Manoj K. Barthwal

Contributed equally to this work with: Manoj K. Barthwal, Joshua J. Anzinger

Affiliation Section of Experimental Atherosclerosis, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Joshua J. Anzinger

Contributed equally to this work with: Manoj K. Barthwal, Joshua J. Anzinger

Affiliation Section of Experimental Atherosclerosis, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Qing Xu

Affiliation Section of Experimental Atherosclerosis, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Thomas Bohnacker

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Matthias P. Wymann

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Howard S. Kruth

kruthh@nhlbi.nih.gov

Affiliation Section of Experimental Atherosclerosis, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Technical help: QX. Conceived and designed the experiments: HSK MKB JJA. Performed the experiments: MKB JJA. Analyzed the data: HSK MKB JJA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TB MPW. Wrote the paper: HSK MKB JJA.