About the Authors

Supriya Srinivasan

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: supriya.srinivasan@ucsf.edu (SS); bconklin@gladstone.ucsf.edu (BRC)

Current address: Department of Physiology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Pamela Santiago

Affiliation Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Cecile Lubrano

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

Christian Vaisse

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, The Diabetes Center, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Bruce R. Conklin

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: supriya.srinivasan@ucsf.edu (SS); bconklin@gladstone.ucsf.edu (BRC)

Affiliations Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California at 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: BC SS. Performed the experiments: SS PS. Analyzed the data: BC SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CV CL. Wrote the paper: SS.