About the Authors

Lukas T. Jeker

Affiliations Diabetes Center and the Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Xuyu Zhou

Current address: Institute Of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China

Affiliation Diabetes Center and the Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Robert Blelloch

Affiliations The Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, Center for Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America,

Jeffrey A. Bluestone

Jeff.bluestone@ucsf.edu

Affiliations Diabetes Center and the Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LTJ XZ JAB. Performed the experiments: LTJ XZ. Analyzed the data: LTJ XZ JAB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RB. Wrote the paper: LTJ JAB. Commented on article: RB XZ.