About the Authors

Vitaly A. Selivanov

Affiliations Departament de Bioquimica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, and IBUB, Barcelona, Spain, A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Tatyana V. Votyakova

tav2@pitt.edu (TVV); martacascante@ub.edu (MC)

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Diabetes Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Violetta N. Pivtoraiko

Affiliation Neuropathology Division, Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Jennifer Zeak

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Diabetes Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Tatiana Sukhomlin

Affiliation Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, Pushchino, Russia

Massimo Trucco

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Diabetes Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Josep Roca

Affiliation Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS, CIBERES, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

Marta Cascante

tav2@pitt.edu (TVV); martacascante@ub.edu (MC)

Affiliation Departament de Bioquimica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, and IBUB, Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VAS TVV. Performed the experiments: TVV VNP JZ. Analyzed the data: VAS TS MT JR MC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VAS. Wrote the paper: VAS TVV.