About the Authors

Sherry Weng

Contributed equally to this work with: Sherry Weng, Jennifer E. Sprague

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jennifer E. Sprague

Contributed equally to this work with: Sherry Weng, Jennifer E. Sprague

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jisu Oh

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipid Research, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Amy E. Riek

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipid Research, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Kathleen Chin

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipid Research, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Miguel Garcia

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipid Research, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Carlos Bernal-Mizrachi

cbernal@dom.wustl.edu

Affiliations Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipid Research, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SW JS CBM. Performed the experiments: SW JS JO KC MG. Analyzed the data: SW JS AR CBM. Wrote the paper: SW JS JO AR KC MG CBM.