About the Authors

Franco Folli

Contributed equally to this work with: Franco Folli, Valeria Guzzi, Lucia Perego

folli@uthscsa.edu (FF); paolo.fiorina@childrens.harvard.edu (PF)

Affiliation Diabetes Division, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Valeria Guzzi

Contributed equally to this work with: Franco Folli, Valeria Guzzi, Lucia Perego

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Surgery, Dental Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Lucia Perego

Contributed equally to this work with: Franco Folli, Valeria Guzzi, Lucia Perego

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Surgery, Dental Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Dawn K. Coletta

Affiliation Center for Metabolic Biology, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Giovanna Finzi

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Ospedale di Circolo and Department of Human Morphology, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

Claudia Placidi

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Ospedale di Circolo and Department of Human Morphology, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

Stefano La Rosa

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Ospedale di Circolo and Department of Human Morphology, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

Carlo Capella

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Ospedale di Circolo and Department of Human Morphology, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

Carlo Socci

Affiliation Surgery Department, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Davide Lauro

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences “Luigi Sacco”, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Devjit Tripathy

Affiliation Diabetes Division, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Christopher Jenkinson

Affiliation Diabetes Division, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Rita Paroni

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Surgery, Dental Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Elena Orsenigo

Affiliation Surgery Department, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Giuliana Cighetti

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences “Luigi Sacco”, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Luisa Gregorini

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Surgery, Dental Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Carlo Staudacher

Affiliation Surgery Department, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Antonio Secchi

Affiliation Department of Medicine, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Angela Bachi

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Università Vita e Salute-San Raffaele, Milan, Italy

Michael Brownlee

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Paolo Fiorina

folli@uthscsa.edu (FF); paolo.fiorina@childrens.harvard.edu (PF)

Affiliation Transplantation Research Center/Nephrology Division, Children's Hospital/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FF VG LP CS. Performed the experiments: FF VG LP DC CP EO. Analyzed the data: FF VG LP DC GF SLR CC CS DL DT CPJ RP EO GC LG CS AS AB MB PF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FF VG LP. Wrote the paper: FF VG LP GF CP SLR CC CS DL DT RP GC LG CS AS AB MB PF.