About the Authors

Nidhi Kapoor

Affiliation Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Joshua T. Maxwell

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Gregory A. Mignery

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

David Will

Affiliation Center for Cardiovascular Research, Dept. of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Lothar A. Blatter

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Kathrin Banach

kbanach@uic.edu

Affiliation Center for Cardiovascular Research, Dept. of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NK JTM DW GAM LAB KB. Performed the experiments: NK JTM DW KB. Analyzed the data: NK JTM GAM DW LAB KB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JTM GAM LAB. Wrote the paper: KB NK JTM.