About the Authors

Sandra Schubert

Affiliations Molecular Diabetology, Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden, Uniklinikum Carl Gustav Carus at Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Klaus-Peter Knoch

Affiliation Molecular Diabetology, Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden, Uniklinikum Carl Gustav Carus at Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

Joke Ouwendijk

Affiliation Molecular Diabetology, Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden, Uniklinikum Carl Gustav Carus at Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

Shabaz Mohammed

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Yury Bodrov

Affiliation Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Melanie Jäger

Affiliation Molecular Diabetology, Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden, Uniklinikum Carl Gustav Carus at Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

Anke Altkrüger

Affiliation Molecular Diabetology, Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden, Uniklinikum Carl Gustav Carus at Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

Carolin Wegbrod

Affiliations Molecular Diabetology, Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden, Uniklinikum Carl Gustav Carus at Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Marvin E. Adams

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Yong Kim

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Stanley C. Froehner

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Ole N. Jensen

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Yannis Kalaidzidis

Affiliations Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany, A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Michele Solimena

michele.solimena@tu-dresden.de

Affiliations Molecular Diabetology, Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden, Uniklinikum Carl Gustav Carus at Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS. Performed the experiments: SS KPK JO SM MJ AA CW. Analyzed the data: SS JO SM YB YK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MEA YK SCF ONJ. Wrote the paper: SS MS. Supervisor: MS.