About the Authors

Renée Paradis

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada

Noureddine Lazar

Affiliation Unité de formation et de recherche en Biochimie, Université de Paris 7-D Diderot, Paris, France

Peter Antinozzi

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Bernard Perbal

Affiliation Unité de formation et de recherche en Biochimie, Université de Paris 7-D Diderot, Paris, France

Jean Buteau

jbuteau@ualberta.ca

Current address: Alberta Diabetes Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RP PA JB. Performed the experiments: RP PA JB. Analyzed the data: PA BP JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NL PA BP JB. Wrote the paper: BP JB.