About the Authors

Yanmei Liu

Affiliations Molecular Diabetology, Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden, School of Medicine and University Clinic ‘Carl Gustav Carus’, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Jakob Suckale

Affiliation Molecular Diabetology, Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden, School of Medicine and University Clinic ‘Carl Gustav Carus’, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

Jimmy Masjkur

Affiliation Molecular Diabetology, Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden, School of Medicine and University Clinic ‘Carl Gustav Carus’, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

Maria Grazia Magro

Affiliations Molecular Diabetology, Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden, School of Medicine and University Clinic ‘Carl Gustav Carus’, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Anja Steffen

Affiliations Molecular Diabetology, Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden, School of Medicine and University Clinic ‘Carl Gustav Carus’, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, Medical Clinic III, University Clinic ‘Carl Gustav Carus’, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

Konstantinos Anastassiadis

Affiliations Genetic Engineering of Stem Cells, BioInnovations Zentrum, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

Michele Solimena

michele.solimena@tu-dresden.de

Affiliations Molecular Diabetology, Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden, School of Medicine and University Clinic ‘Carl Gustav Carus’, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany, Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL JS MS. Performed the experiments: YL JS JM MGM AS KA. Analyzed the data: YL JS JM MGM MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KA. Wrote the paper: YL MS.