About the Authors

Claudiane Guay

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudiane Guay, Érik Joly

Affiliation Molecular Nutrition Unit and the Montreal Diabetes Research Center at the Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, CR-CHUM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Érik Joly

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudiane Guay, Érik Joly

Affiliation Molecular Nutrition Unit and the Montreal Diabetes Research Center at the Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, CR-CHUM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Émilie Pepin

Affiliation Molecular Nutrition Unit and the Montreal Diabetes Research Center at the Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, CR-CHUM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Annie Barbeau

Affiliation Molecular Nutrition Unit and the Montreal Diabetes Research Center at the Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, CR-CHUM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Lisa Hentsch

Affiliation Molecular Nutrition Unit and the Montreal Diabetes Research Center at the Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, CR-CHUM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Marco Pineda

Affiliation Molecular Nutrition Unit and the Montreal Diabetes Research Center at the Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, CR-CHUM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

S. R. Murthy Madiraju

Affiliation Molecular Nutrition Unit and the Montreal Diabetes Research Center at the Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, CR-CHUM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Henri Brunengraber

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United State of America

Marc Prentki

marc.prentki@umontreal.ca

Affiliations Molecular Nutrition Unit and the Montreal Diabetes Research Center at the Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, CR-CHUM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Departments of Nutrition and Biochemistry, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CG EJ MM M. Prentki. Performed the experiments: CG EP AB M. Pineda LS. Analyzed the data: CG EJ EP AB M. Pineda LS MM HB M. Prentki. Wrote the paper: CG EJ MM HB M. Prentki.