About the Authors

Kosuke Matsuo

Contributed equally to this work with: Kosuke Matsuo, Ahmed Bettaieb

Affiliation Nutrition Department, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Ahmed Bettaieb

Contributed equally to this work with: Kosuke Matsuo, Ahmed Bettaieb

Affiliation Nutrition Department, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Naoto Nagata

Affiliation Nutrition Department, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Izumi Matsuo

Affiliation Nutrition Department, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Heike Keilhack

Current address: Merck Research Laboratories, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Fawaz G. Haj

fghaj@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Nutrition Department, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FGH. Performed the experiments: KM AB NN IM HK FGH. Analyzed the data: KM AB NN FGH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KM HK FGH. Wrote the paper: AB NN FGH.