About the Authors

John C. Williams

Contributed equally to this work with: John C. Williams, Jianjin Xu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Jianjin Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: John C. Williams, Jianjin Xu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Zhongju Lu

Affiliation Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Aleksandra Klimas

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Xuxin Chen

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Christina M. Ambrosi

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Ira S. Cohen

Affiliations Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, Institute for Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Emilia Entcheva

emilia.entcheva@stonybrook.edu

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, Institute for Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ISC EE. Performed the experiments: JCW JX ZL AK XC CMA. Analyzed the data: JCW JX AK XC CMA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ISC EE. Wrote the paper: JCW JX AK CMA ISC EE.