About the Authors

Alejandro Colaneri

Contributed equally to this work with: Alejandro Colaneri, Tianyuan Wang

acolaneri_2000@yahoo.com.ar (AC); birnbau1@niehs.nih.gov (LB)

Current address: Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Affiliation Laboratory of Neurobiology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Tianyuan Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Alejandro Colaneri, Tianyuan Wang

Affiliation Laboratory of Neurobiology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Vijayakanth Pagadala

Affiliation Laboratory of Neurobiology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Jaya Kittur

Affiliation Laboratory of Neurobiology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Nickolas G. Staffa Jr

Affiliation Laboratory of Neurobiology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Shyamal D. Peddada

Affiliation Biostatistics Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Elvira Isganaitis

Affiliation Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mary Elizabeth Patti

Affiliation Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lutz Birnbaumer

acolaneri_2000@yahoo.com.ar (AC); birnbau1@niehs.nih.gov (LB)

Current address: Laboratory of Neurobiology, National Institute of Environmental Health, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Affiliation Laboratory of Neurobiology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AC MEP LB. Performed the experiments: AC VP JK EI. Analyzed the data: TW AC NGS SDP LB. Wrote the paper: AC TW LB.