About the Authors

Roman Nawroth

Current address: Department of Urology, Technische Universität München, München, Germany

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Annemieke van Zante

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Sara Cervantes

Affiliation Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Michael McManus

Affiliation Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Matthias Hebrok

Affiliations Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Steven D. Rosen

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: steven.rosen@ucsf.edu

Affiliations Department of Anatomy, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SR RN MH. Performed the experiments: RN AV SC. Analyzed the data: SR RN AV SC MH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MM. Wrote the paper: SR RN AV MH.