About the Authors

Klaus Pechhold

KlausP@intra.NIDDK.NIH.gov

Affiliation Diabetes Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Kerstin Koczwara

Current address: Institut für Diabetesforschung - Forschergruppe Diabetes e.V. - am Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Muenchen, Germany

Affiliation Diabetes Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Xiaolong Zhu

Affiliation Diabetes Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Victor S. Harrison

Affiliation Diabetes Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Greg Walker

Affiliation Diabetes Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Janet Lee

Affiliation Diabetes Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

David M. Harlan

Affiliation Diabetes Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KP KK VSH DMH. Performed the experiments: KP KK XZ GW JL. Analyzed the data: KP VSH. Wrote the paper: KP DMH.