As shown in Fig. 1A, infection of ALDH2-deficient VSMC with WT or C301S/C303S ALDH2 resulted in similar protein expression levels of 7.7 ± 1.2 and 5.9 ± 0.6 ng of ALDH2/μg of total protein for wild-type and mutated ALDH2, respectively. The gene discussed is ALDH2; the disease is infection.