About the Authors

Ji-Hyeon Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Ji-Hyeon Lee, Junghyo Jo

Affiliation Regenerative Biology Section, Diabetes Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Junghyo Jo

Contributed equally to this work with: Ji-Hyeon Lee, Junghyo Jo

Affiliation Laboratory of Biological Modeling, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Anandwardhan A. Hardikar

Affiliation Stem Cells and Diabetes Section, National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Vipul Periwal

Affiliation Laboratory of Biological Modeling, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sushil G. Rane

ranes@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Regenerative Biology Section, Diabetes Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JJ VP SGR. Performed the experiments: JHL AAH. Analyzed the data: JHL JJ VP SGR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AAH. Wrote the paper: JJ VP SGR.