About the Authors

Haiyan Lei

Affiliation National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Tetsunari Fukushige

Affiliation National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Wei Niu

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Mihail Sarov

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Valerie Reinke

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Michael Krause

mwkrause@helix.nih.gov

Affiliation National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HL TF WN MS VR MK. Performed the experiments: HL TF WN MS. Analyzed the data: HL TF WN MS VR MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HL TF WN MS. Wrote the paper: HL VR MK.