About the Authors

Zhenshu Wen

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhenshu Wen, Zhi-Ping Liu, Yiqing Yan

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Systems Biology, SIBS-Novo Nordisk Translational Research Centre for PreDiabetes, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, Department of Mathematical Sciences, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

Zhi-Ping Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhenshu Wen, Zhi-Ping Liu, Yiqing Yan

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Systems Biology, SIBS-Novo Nordisk Translational Research Centre for PreDiabetes, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Yiqing Yan

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhenshu Wen, Zhi-Ping Liu, Yiqing Yan

Affiliation Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Guanying Piao

Affiliation Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Zhengrong Liu

Affiliation Department of Mathematical Sciences, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

Jiarui Wu

wujr@sibs.ac.cn (JW); lnchen@sibs.ac.cn (LC)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Systems Biology, SIBS-Novo Nordisk Translational Research Centre for PreDiabetes, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Luonan Chen

wujr@sibs.ac.cn (JW); lnchen@sibs.ac.cn (LC)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Systems Biology, SIBS-Novo Nordisk Translational Research Centre for PreDiabetes, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JW LC. Performed the experiments: YY JW. Analyzed the data: ZW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZW ZPL JW LC. Wrote the paper: ZW ZPL LC. GP ZRL.