About the Authors

Heiner K. Berthold

Contributed equally to this work with: Heiner K. Berthold, Nabil G. Seidah

heiner.berthold@charite.de

Affiliations Charité University Medicine Berlin, Evangelical Geriatrics Center Berlin (EGZB), Berlin, Germany, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Virchow Clinic Campus, Lipid Clinic at the Interdisciplinary Metabolism Center, Berlin, Germany

Nabil G. Seidah

Contributed equally to this work with: Heiner K. Berthold, Nabil G. Seidah

Affiliation Laboratory of Biochemical Neuroendocrinology, Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Suzanne Benjannet

Affiliation Laboratory of Biochemical Neuroendocrinology, Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Ioanna Gouni-Berthold

Affiliation University of Cologne, Center for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Preventive Medicine, Cologne, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors would like to extend their declaration of funding from a commercial source by the following statement: This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. In addition, HKB is serving as an academic editor for PLOS ONE. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HKB IGB. Performed the experiments: HKB IGB. Analyzed the data: HKB NGS IGB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NGS SB. Wrote the paper: HKB NGS SB IGB.