About the Authors

John P. Morris IV

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

Renee Greer

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

Holger A. Russ

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

Guido von Figura

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

Grace E. Kim

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Anke Busch

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Jonghyeob Lee

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Klemens J. Hertel

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Seung Kim

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Michael Mcmanus

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

Matthias Hebrok

mhebrok@diabetes.ucsf.edu

Affiliation Diabetes Center, Department of Medicine, 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: JPM MH. Performed the experiments: JPM RG HAR. Analyzed the data: JPM RG HAR GvF GEK AB MH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL SK KLH MM. Wrote the paper: JPM MH.