About the Authors

Nora Klöting

Affiliation IFB AdiposityDiseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Nico Hesselbarth

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Martin Gericke

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Anne Kunath

Affiliation German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Leipzig, Germany

Ronald Biemann

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Chemistry, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Rima Chakaroun

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Joanna Kosacka

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Peter Kovacs

Affiliation IFB AdiposityDiseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Matthias Kern

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Michael Stumvoll

Affiliations IFB AdiposityDiseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Bernd Fischer

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Martin Luther University Halle, Halle (Saale), Germany

Ulrike Rolle-Kampczyk

Affiliation Department of Metabolomics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Ralph Feltens

Affiliation Department of Metabolomics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Wolfgang Otto

Affiliation Department of Metabolomics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Dirk K. Wissenbach

Affiliation Department of Metabolomics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Martin von Bergen

Affiliations Department of Metabolomics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Proteomics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Biotechnology and Environmental Engineering, University of Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark

Matthias Blüher

bluma@medizin.uni-leipzig.de

Affiliations IFB AdiposityDiseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NK MK NH MG AK RB JK RC DKW URK PK WO. Performed the experiments: NK MK NH AK JK RC RF DKW URK WO. Analyzed the data: NK MK NH JK DKW WO PK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RF RB. Wrote the paper: NK MS MB MvB BF RB.