About the Authors

Norifumi Takeda

notakeda-tky@umin.ac.jp (NT); epsteinj@upenn.edu (JAE)

Current address: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Affiliations Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Penn Cardiovascular Institute, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Institute of Regenerative Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Rajan Jain

Affiliations Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Penn Cardiovascular Institute, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Institute of Regenerative Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Deqiang Li

Affiliations Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Penn Cardiovascular Institute, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Institute of Regenerative Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Li Li

Affiliation Penn Cardiovascular Institute, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Min Min Lu

Affiliation Penn Cardiovascular Institute, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jonathan A. Epstein

notakeda-tky@umin.ac.jp (NT); epsteinj@upenn.edu (JAE)

Affiliations Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Penn Cardiovascular Institute, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Institute of Regenerative Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NT RJ DL JAE. Performed the experiments: NT MM LL. Analyzed the data: NT RJ DL JAE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NT RJ. Wrote the paper: NT RJ JAE.