About the Authors

Ruymán Santana-Farré

Contributed equally to this work with: Ruymán Santana-Farré, Mercedes Mirecki-Garrido

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Molecular and Translational Endocrinology Group, University of Las Palmas de GC – Cancer Research Institute of The Canary Islands (ICIC), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Mercedes Mirecki-Garrido

Contributed equally to this work with: Ruymán Santana-Farré, Mercedes Mirecki-Garrido

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Molecular and Translational Endocrinology Group, University of Las Palmas de GC – Cancer Research Institute of The Canary Islands (ICIC), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Carlos Bocos

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculties of Pharmacy and Medicine, University San Pablo-CEU, Madrid, Spain

Luis A. Henríquez-Hernández

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Molecular and Translational Endocrinology Group, University of Las Palmas de GC – Cancer Research Institute of The Canary Islands (ICIC), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Nusrat Kahlon

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Emilio Herrera

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculties of Pharmacy and Medicine, University San Pablo-CEU, Madrid, Spain

Gunnar Norstedt

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Paolo Parini

Affiliation Division of Clinical Chemistry, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Molecular Nutrition Unit, Center for Nutrition and Toxicology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Amilcar Flores-Morales

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, Novo Nordisk Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Leandro Fernández-Pérez

lfernandez@dcc.ulpgc.es

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Molecular and Translational Endocrinology Group, University of Las Palmas de GC – Cancer Research Institute of The Canary Islands (ICIC), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: AF-M is supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LF-P AF-M CB GN EH. Performed the experiments: RS-F MM-G CB NK LF-P PP LH-H. Analyzed the data: LF-P AF-M PP GN CB. Wrote the paper: LF-P AF-M CB.