About the Authors

Hillary Johnston-Cox

Contributed equally to this work with: Hillary Johnston-Cox, Anna S. Eisenstein

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Anna S. Eisenstein

Contributed equally to this work with: Hillary Johnston-Cox, Anna S. Eisenstein

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Milka Koupenova

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Shannon Carroll

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Katya Ravid

kravid@bu.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KR HJC AE MK SC. Performed the experiments: HJC AE MK SC. Analyzed the data: KR HJC AE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KR. Wrote the paper: KR HJC AE.